Everyone else is pointing to it, and they’re right. Read Josh Marshall on Iraq.
We’re lucky to be living in the Federer era 
I’m completely potty about tennis (playing even more than watching). So I can’t let Roger Federer’s demolition of Lleyton Hewitt in the US Open final pass without mention.
Federer is setting completely new standards in the sport. He can do things, consistently, that no one else has yet dreamed of. His two bagels of Hewitt, the third-ranked player in the world, were remarkable, but I think the 7-6 second set gives even greater pause for thought: Federer served under 50%, made a bunch of unforced errors and still won the set.
“Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot, but he’ll remember with advantages what feats he did that day.”
I haven’t yet gotten around to Thomas Frank’s What’s the Matter with Kansas. But I’m baffled by the UK publisher’s decision to retitle the book What’s the Matter with America. Surely that’s not the same idea at all. And it’s nowhere near as good a title.
I had a major piece of work that I need to get out the door today, so I’m posting late and sparsely. One small thing I learned today is how to stop Word’s annoying habit of shifting unexpectedly into overtype mode. That’s a real sense of accomplishment.