I'm at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival this weekend, where there will be movies, author panels, and of course, my wife's prints and jewelry for sale. The upshot of this is that I need to keep it a little short this weekend, so I'll have to make up for it in quality. So please join me on the flip side for some tasty ITEMS!
ITEM! What does Chicago losing its Olympics bid mean for Mayor Richard Daley? More here. On a similar note, Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com looks at the IOC voting process here.
ITEM! The GOP are prepping to run in 2010 on being more hawkish than Obama. Which is really, really weird, since Obama is not exactly what I'd call a dove .. except on Iraq, where he's following the plan that the Bush administration negotiated with the Iraqi government. But, that's the way politics works. It should also tell us something, by the way, on how narrow and hawkish the Overton Window is when it comes to foreign policy.
ITEM! Juan Cole presents The Top Ten Things You Think you Know About Iran that are Not True. Go read it. Go share it. It's essential reading in these times.
ITEM! The last leader of East Germany deflects blame and mourns the loss of the Berlin wall here. The Chutzpah is fascinating.
MICE!
Not mine, but a real sweetie nonetheless.
ITEM! What gets me going on six hours of sleep? This.
ITEM! What's the harm of religion, anyway? Do you really want to know? Brilliant summary here. (That goes for Thelema-as-religion too, by the way.)
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