Good Blogging

Bookworm notes Rosie O'Donnell's inflated opinion of Jimmy Carter and observes what a great pair they make.

Andynonymous ends a string of posts asking why the media can't just report the facts, period. When we want editorializing, we'll ask for it.

Daled Amos explains that the Israel of today is different, and pundits have yet to catch up with the change.  "Oh, for the good old days when it could be assumed that Israel would take action when threatened..."

GMRoper discusses the potential presidential candidacy of Michael Bloomberg. He polls readers: Will Bloomberg hurt the Republicans, the Democrats or will he have no effect at all?

From Israel Matzav:  "The Hebrew daily Maariv is reporting that Israel is preparing to attack Iran's nuclear weapons sites in cooperation with the United States." However, as Carl notes, this is not the first time rumors of a strike have been heard.  Preparation does not mean they have a definitive plan to take action just yet.

Mark enlightens us with a quote concerning faulty translation from Irshad Manji's book, "The Trouble With Islam Today." This is the book, by the way, that I found several copies of turned around and facing in the wrong direction and placed in the Judaism section of Barnes and Nobles at Tyson's Corner Center (I described this in a post of a few weeks ago). 

Shirl shares the Rules of Lomography and her mother's beautiful delpheniums.

Oceanguy comments on palestinian fantasies, war, and our options. "If the Arabs will not step up and help themselves and will not acknowledge their role in creating the disaster on their palestinian brothers, then they are doomed to civil war and we are doomed to be sucked into it..."

Jack of Random Thoughts observes the changes that occur over a long period of blogging.  Do all of us tend to become more reserved over time?

SoccerDad discusses and provides many links on the question of whether or not Fatah "took a dive" and willingly allowed Hamas to take over for tactical reasons.

Smooth Stone reports about fears in the Arab World following the Gaza coup.

Ilona posts a map comparing Israel in King Solomon's time to Israel of today. 

Patti continues to GET BETTER!

Yankee From Mississippi reassures us by observing that most of the young people she knows may watch Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart, but they are NOT the source they use for getting serious news.

Treppenwitz lists his 100 favorite movies.  It's an excellent list, with one exception. No Groundhog Day!

And last, but not least, Seawitch asks us to vote for our favorite alien.

Comments

[Mark]

Thanks, Gail! I should clarify that the quote I posted is from the Guardian but Manji mentions the issue in her book.

Got a link for the post you did about her book at B&N??

Have you read it? Good stuff, actually.

[Gail]

You're welcome. No, I haven't read the book, but I am kind of curious about it. Here's the link to the post.

[Jack]

Good round up. Thank you.

[AndyJ]

Thanks for the recommendation... I'm working on an Andy In The Debates post. Less just me and more in the scrum... I'll have that donw before the next debate in July... I tried to do the Democrat Debate but... I'm a fish that can't swim in those waters...

Itsa funny world... finding the humor is hard some days... Other days there is just TOO much... Stuff that even scrappleface or the onion couldnt make up...

Thanks for the links and references... You have good friends and friends who write well...