Wednesday Reading

The Watcher has posted the Watcher's Council's nominees for the best blogospherial reading for the week. Read 'em and weep for the sheer beauty of them. The Council will vote Thursday and results will be posted here Friday.

Council links:

1. Re-Crafting U.S. Foreign Policy
   The Glittering Eye
2. Needed Perspective
   The Colossus of Rhodey
3. Mitt Wit
   Done With Mirrors
4. An Interesting Morning
   Rhymes With Right
5. Africa Appreciates
   Soccer Dad
6. Political Fairy Tales **Bumped ('cause it was getting lost below)**
   Bookworm Room
7. The "Don't Make Waves!" Theory of Iraqi Politics
   Big Lizards
8. Something Rotten In Brussels
   ‘Okie’ on the Lam
9. Globalization Killed the Bison?!
   Cheat Seeking Missiles
10. Roundup With Weekend Monkey, 8/10/07
    Joshuapundit
11. The Elephant in the EduReform Room
    The Education Wonks
12. A Straw in the Wind
    Right Wing Nut House

Non-council links:

1. General James Mattis -- Attacking the al Qaeda "Narrative"
   Small Wars Journal
2. Fathers, The Third Victim of the Abortion Industry
   Intellectual Conservative
3. Gen. Petraeus Talks to a Liberal
   Redstate
4. Huckabee's Results In Iowa Poll -- It's the FairTax, Stupid!
   The Liberty Papers
5. The Difference Between Reward and Punishment
   Yehuda
6. Clap 'Em In Stocks!
   Eternity Road
7. Progressive For Racist Smears? (Update: Progressive Wises Up A Little Late)
   Captain's Quarters
8. False Altruism
   JunkYardBlog
9. Al-Qaeda, Trucks and Radioactoive Materials: Followup
   Wake Up America
10. In Memory of Kimberly
    Aaron's Rod
11. Why the Ethics Bill Is a Joke (Update: Why Bush Won't Veto It)
    Captain's Quarters (2)
12. Wait, I Thought Our Quota for Epic Debacles Had Been Exceeded!
    The Belgravia Dispatch
13. Are You Black Enough?
    Logosphilia
14. Demystification
    The Possum Bistro