Good Reading Wednesday

The Watcher's Council links are out, which means the opportunity to read some of the best stuff the blogosphere has to offer -- good writing, provocative thinking, lucid conclusions, and more than a few laughs at the expense of the fools on the left.

Something odd happened this week. I submitted my post Over-Thinking America, but Watcher posted another one I was considering submitting, "The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time". My nominee for non-Council post, Gates of Vienna's Conversations with Fjordman also wasn't listed. I'll have to find out what's up with that.

Anyway, enjoy the reading; results will be posted Friday.

Council links:

1. Have You Had Your Melamine Today?
   The Glittering Eye
2. Authenticity, the West, and Islam
   Eternity Road
3. I Know What You're Against, But What Are You For?
   Bookworm Room
4. The Quietest Hero
   Soccer Dad
5. After Iraq: Kurdish Option
   Done With Mirrors
6. Not Only Is She a Babe...
   The Colossus of Rhodey
7. Does America Elect Defeatists?
   Big Lizards
8. Taking God Out of One Public School Classroom
   The Education Wonks
9. Zawahiri Posts an Important New Video -- and Reveals al-Qaeda's Jihad Strategy
   Joshuapundit
10. Suffering By Comparison
    Right Wing Nut House
11. "The Greatest Scientific Scandal of Our Time"
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
12. The Fort Dix Six
    Rhymes With Right

Non-council links:

1. It Takes Two Sides to End a War
   Winds of Change
2. Two Words
   Cup of Love
3. The Result of European Unification Will Be War
   The Brussels
4. Security Plans
   Oleh Musings
5. No More Partisanship
   Ali Eteraz
6. Civilization Watch
   The Ornery American
7. Eardrum-Shattering Death Rattles
   Hugh Hewitt
8. The Flight To Flyover Country
   Captain's Quarters
9. “Better a Thousand Israeli Invasions...”
   Michael J. Totten
10. The Gatekeepers' Gambit
    Protein Wisdom
11. I'm Fuzzy on This ‘Namecalling’ Thing
    The Anchoress
12. "Truthers" Never Sleep
    Ace of Spades HQ
13. Prostitutes and Politics
    Reason Magazine
14. Blair's Legacy Coming Home to Roost...
    Dodgeblogium