Wednesday Reading

It looks like there's some good reading in store for us this week, as Watcher's posting of the Watcher's Council nominees covers a range of topics by a bevy of exceptional observers. Here you go; enjoy; winners posted here Friday!

Council links:

1. The Artificial Honkey
   Done With Mirrors
2. Comparisons Are Odious
   The Glittering Eye
3. Apologists
   Soccer Dad
4. American Schools Avoid Responsibility At Levels Both Large and Small
   Bookworm Room
5. Of Stonewalling and Blackwater
   Cheat Seeking Missiles
6. A Matter of Death
   Rhymes With Right
7. Mucking About With Mukasey
   Big Lizards
8. Why Hate Crimes Are a Joke Part 5783, and Why the University of Delaware Digs 'em
   The Colossus of Rhodey
9. When Kids Grow Up Too Fast: The Maine Story
   The Education Wonks
10. Syria's Assad Caught With His Hands in the Nuclear Cookie Jar
    Joshuapundit
11. The Race to Politicize Tragedy
    Right Wing Nut House
12. The Iraq War -- Coming To a Theater Near You
    ‘Okie’ on the Lam

Non-council links:

1. Where Do You Stand in the New Culture Wars?
   Times Online
2. The U.S. Media's Admiration of Chancellor Merkel Is Suddenly Over
   The Moderate Voice
3. The Unbearable Lightness of Optimism
   Simply Jews
4. I'm Sorry... Was That Supposed To Be Journalism?
   Confederate Yankee
5. Flag-folding Recitations Now Banned At National Cemeteries
   Flopping Aces
6. Nevermind Alcohol, Is Living In Canada Haram?
   Kafir Canada
7. Impossible to Take Seriously
   Power Line
8. The Inscrutable Angst of Little Round Headed Kids
   By Benjamin Kerstein
9. We Built This City On Pork and Bull
   Captain's Quarters
10. What's Wrong with America?
    National Review Online
11. Is This the State of Academics Today?
    The QandO Blog
12. Stifling My Radical Libertarian Conservative Goldwater Liberalism
    Classical Values
13. Helping the World Out of Its Misery
    Dr. Sanity
14. Farewell Israel?
    Dodgeblogium