What The Essayists Are Saying Round 4

• Mark Steyn: "The thing about Obama is he's a very articulate guy when it comes to saying nothing."
• Sippican Cottage: On Swamps "You'll be told, early and often, that it's a delicate thing, this swa... um, I mean wetland. It really isn't. It's a ferocious thing."
• One Cosmos: Atheism and the Unrequited Love of Truth "Yesterday I was blasting the Who Live at Leeds, which every person must now and then do for reasons too obvious to get into here."
• Nomophobia The fear of being mobile-less.
• 2blowhards.com: What'll They Bracket Next? "Designers seem to feel they're in the business of highlighting things.... And they aren't going to stop until they've highlighted everything. Nothing's routine, everything's special. And bracket-mania is a part of that general idiocy."
• Dr. Sanity: THE ECONOMIC EQUIVALENT OF CREATIONISM, OR, "GIFTS" FROM ABOVE "When it comes to our energy policy over the years ... , the Democrats, the environmentalists and the left in general all simultaneously have demanded repeatedly that we come up with some magical and perfect solution...."
• Neoneocon's unholy obesession with Jello continues - Jello (pudding) treat of the day
• American Thinker: The Democrats' Ex-Presidents "Why is it that so many Democratic leaders find it necessary to continue making spectacles of themselves after they leave office?"
• Roach motels of Iraq Sadr City barrier "a magnet" for Mahdi Army attacks - The Long War Journal "Mahdi Army forces launched the complex attack from the region north of Al Qods Street. The US soldiers counterattacked and killed 28 Mahdi Army fighters while taking six wounded."

Posted by Vanderleun at May 2, 2008 10:22 AM