links for 2007-07-06 Daniel Brook: The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America emptywheel: Is this the Evidence that Libby Knew Plame Was Covert? Keith Olbermann: Special Comment: ‘I didn’t vote for him, but he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job’ Ursula K. LeGuin: The monster laid its squamous hand on her, and the ring branded her like a burning coal. Genre breathed its corpse-breath in her face, and she was lost. She was defiled. She might as well be dead. She would never, ever get invited to wri Mitt Romney News: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who as Massachusetts governor refused to pardon an Iraq war veteran's BB-gun conviction, on Tuesday called President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence "reasonable." Michael Kranish: "Thompson was a mole for the White House," Armstrong said in an interview. "Fred was working hammer and tong to defeat the investigation of finding out what happened to authorize Watergate and find out what the role of the president was." Libre Map Project : California : Free Maps and Data Douglas W. Rae: City: Urbanism and Its End Chris Hayes: Who’s Afraid of Democracy? Bruce Bartlett: Starve the Beast Fontana Labs: I'm searching the internet for new targets of scorn. Let's take a moment to hate on Roger L. "screenwriter and mystery novelist" Simon MaxSpeak, You Listen!: WORST. RECOVERY. EVAH. Ezra Klein: If the Buddha and Machiavelli Had a Child The Avalon Project : Notes on the Debates in the Federal Convention Marginal Utility: A Post I Now Do not Have to Write Scarecrow: Shorter Kinsley III: Scooter should never have been prosecuted, because even if he “leaked” to a reporter, reporters should be protected from revealing sources, so there’s no balance between the two parties to the leak; if reporters are p Ezra Klein: The New Dems are onto something when they suggest "Restart the 21st Century" as a 2008 election theme. We want a redo! A visit to Capitol Hill to calm Republican waters by National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley failed and appeared to some GOP lawmakers to be an effort to put the blame for Iraq War failures on the military Economics Blog : Fed's Madigan to Succeed Reinhart in Monetary Affairs Telekinesis - Google Code blog.pmarca.com: Film of the week: Kiss Me Deadly blog.pmarca.com: Quote of the week, Bonus Edition: Socrates on the "book"
