In A Sunburned Country

Mom recommends:
In A Sunburned Country
by Bill Bryson

Cool Washing Machine Commercial from Overseas (probably don't want to watch this at work)

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The Lives of Others

Monica and I saw this on Sunday. It is amazing!

The Bothersome Man

Oh my!

Oh my! Check this out. (For the Dougster: This guy is doing some really extreme "grigging".)

If you don't want to read about the war, skip this post...

A War We Just Might Win
from the New York Times

This op-ed, from some relatively moderate thinkers, explains what I have been hearing and what I was trying to articulate (in a far too rabid tone) in Minneapolis.

The authors are Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kevin Pollack. Both are scholars with the Brookings Institution.