Wednesday Reading

I wish I could just sit back today and read this stuff, but I'm going to San Francisco to present a client case to the California Coastal Commission's Executive Director so I'm a ball of nerves without much spare time. But the Watcher's Council has done another stellar job this week of compiling some of the most compelling reading in the blogosphere.

My nominations were The Most Ridiculous Story of the Year? (2), about a howlingly stupid analysis of Middle East foreign policy options, and for non-Council entry, The Brussels Journal's Secularist Europe Silences Pro-Lifers and Creationists.

Here's the full list; winners will be posted here either late, late Thursday or first thing Friday.

Council links:

1. A Sort of Haunted Look
   The Glittering Eye
2. SciFi Channel: Humans As Invaders
   The Colossus of Rhodey
3. Back America
   Done With Mirrors
4. Abbas Over Easy
   Soccer Dad
5. ‘Life With An Old Dog’ -- Hard Lessons Learned Hard
   ‘Okie’ on the Lam
6. A Stunningly Dishonest Piece of Advocacy Writing About the Supreme Court
   Bookworm Room
7. Is Tinker Dead?
   Rhymes With Right
8. Dividing and Conquering, or Dancing With the Devil?
   Big Lizards
9. The NEA: Boondoggle Or Money Well Spent?
   The Education Wonks
10. The Most Ridiculous Story of the Year? (2)
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
11. General Petraeus: Fighting On Two Fronts, Winning... and Playing for Time
    Joshuapundit
12. Tinkering With Immigration Bomb Will Only Set It Off
    Right Wing Nut House

Non-council links:

1. U.S. Strategy at a Crossroads
   Westhawk
2. A Bong Hit to Free Speech
   Phi Beta Cons
3. A Modest Proposal On Reforming Social Security Preceding the Boomer Flood
   Immodest Proposals
4. The Rupture
   Seraphic Secret
5. It's a Great Day for Freedom of Speech
   Tapscott's Copy Desk
6. Professional Protester, Jihadi-Style
   Snapped Shot
7. The Human Rights Outrage In Iran... and a Challenge to Rosie O'Donnell and Her Ilk
   Michelle Malkin
8. Iraq Report: al Qaeda Strikes at the Seams
   The Fourth Rail
9. Women, Lost and Found
   La Shawn Barber's Corner
10. Secularist Europe Silences Pro-Lifers and Creationists
    The Brussels Journal
11. Are Idiots of This Magnitude Born or Made?
    Dr. Sanity
12. Muslim Speaks at My Church, Calls Me “Naive.” Also “Tough.”
    Anwyn's Notes in the Margin
13. The Rape of a Name
    Rite Wing TechnoPagan
14. The Disadvantaged Majority.
    Dodgeblogium

Thanks again, Watcher, for putting on this show every week.