Wednesday Reading

Our email crashed this morning -- we managed to pile up some 20 gigs of emails on our server! -- and it's amazing how little work can be done nowadays without emails.

But what better day for it? The Watcher has posted the Watcher's Council pickin's of the best fruit on the Tree of Blog Knowledge for your perusal. Go ahead, squeeze 'em, take a bite! It's not a sin.

Council links:

1. Or Not
   Done With Mirrors
2. CD22 Runoff -- Shelly Sekula Gibbs Vs. Pete Olson
   Rhymes With Right
3. Black Liberation Theology
   Joshuapundit
4. Interpreting the Events In Basra
   The Glittering Eye
5. The Repeated Historical Falsehood
   The Colossus of Rhodey
6. The Messiah-Shtick
   Bookworm Room
7. Sticks and Stones
   Soccer Dad
8. Another UN Obscenity (Updated)
   Wolf Howling
9. 'Tis The Season For Parents and Kids To Be Scammed
   The Education Wonks
10. Answering Yasmine
    Cheat Seeking Missiles
11. Can We Just Walk Away From Iraq?
    Right Wing Nut House
12. The Moral Blindness of the Left
    Hillbilly White Trash

Non-council links:

1. If You Can't Beat Them, Threaten to Behead Them...
   Immodest Proposals
2. Disgrace: UN Human Rights Council Endorses Ban On Religious Defamation
   Hot Air
3. Marash Quits English al Jazeera Over the (British) Anti-Americanism
   Augean Stables
4. Thoughts About This Article From The Observer
   Abu Muqawama
5. Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
   Oliver Kamm
6. 5 Years, 1 year
   Acute Politics
7. NY Times Reporters Try To Defend Grave Mistake -- Of Course Fail
   The Strata-Sphere
8. Safe at Home Interviews Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser
   Family Security Matters
9. Tribalism
   Classical Values
10. Avian Chorus
    The Paragraph Farmer
11. Obama Does It Again
    Ace of Spades HQ
12. What Did You Expect?
    Eternity Road
13. Politicians Do Nothing, Call it Something
    TFS Magnum
14. Young Dick Cheney: Great American (Andrew Reviews)
    Dodgeblogium

Council members will cast their votes Thursday evening, the Watcher will tally, and results will be posted here Friday morning.

Thanks, Watcher, for cobbling together this fresh word cobbler.