Wednesday Reading

Oh, happy day! The Watcher has posted this week's nominees for some of the finest reading in the blogosphere.

My humble nominees were my post Bush Defies Warming Autocrats At G8 and for best post by someone not a member of the Watcher's Council, Memorial Day and the Mirror of Hope from Sigmund, Karl and Alfred.

Before getting to the rest of the nominees, an announcement: there's an opening on the Council. We will greatly miss the exceptional writing at Francis W. Porretto's Eternity Road, but our loss could be your gain. If you're up to a couple hours of excellent reading a week in return for greater exposure for your blog (sounds like a deal, eh?), read these rules and consider it.

Now, here's the full list, starting with the Council links:

1. Living on $1 a Meal
   The Glittering Eye
2. "But Isn't the Real Issue ...?"
   The Colossus of Rhodey
3. Mitt the Mormon
   Bookworm Room
4. Talking With the Bad Guys
   Soccer Dad
5. No Friend Left Behind (Update)
   Done With Mirrors
6. HuffPo Writer Equates Isolated Christian Nutjob To Islamism's Global Terror Network
   Rhymes With Right
7. Reflecting On 230 Years Of Blood and Sacrifice
   Right Wing Nut House
8. Bush Defies Warming Autocrats At G8
   Cheat Seeking Missiles
9. A Cure for “Anti-Zionism”
   Joshuapundit
10. Let Their Victims Come
    Big Lizards
11. Memorial Day: Just Another Day of Instruction?
    The Education Wonks

Non-council links:

1. In Response to the WaPo: What Really Matters
   The Moderate Voice
2. Liberal Pyromaniacs
   Intellectual Conservative
3. Sticking To What I Know Best
   Dr. Sanity
4. Why Can't a Zionist Be More Like Iran?
   Judeopundit
5. US Muslims and Suicide Bombings
   The Huffington Post
6. Teachers Pay Raise: $430. Governors Pay Raise: $32,000.
   Bay Area Houston
7. Obama's Health Care Panacea
   The QandO Blog
8. Memorial Day and the Mirror of Hope
   Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
9. Brave Men and Demons
   Michael Yon
10. On Memorial Day
    Hugh Hewitt
11. Death to Pedophiles
    La Shawn Barber's Corner
12. From the Mouths of Babes: Climate Analysis That Actually Works
    Kobayashi Maru
13. Changeable News Network
    Rite Wing TechnoPagan