Bunch’O’Links

CT doesn’t have many of these posts – lots of links with little analysis. Most of the following are horror stories of various kinds.

Val Plumwood on surviving a crocodile attack. I like the ending. As Dylan said, death is not the end. You’re still someone else’s food.

Brian Leiter quotes a long letter from a very observant soldier in Fallujah. Lots of telling analogies, as well as a sense of just how dangerous it must be for the people on the ground right now. (Hint: It’s slightly less bad than being in a crocodile’s death roll. Slightly.)

Brad DeLong on the latest reason why Bush, Cheney (and one supposes Ashcroft) should be impeached. I’m obviously biased, but I find the way this administration has treated citizens of allied countries (esp Britain, Australia and Canada) to be their most disturbing characteristic. For this bunch, that’s saying a lot.

Here’s a little blog quiz. How many conservative bloggers will we find condemning the administration for shipping an innocent citizen of an allied country to an objectively pro-terrorist government for the express purpose of having him tortured on the basis of next to no good evidence? How many will argue this is a lower crime than lying about sex? Personally I’ll be disappointed if no one from the administration ends up in jail over this.

Two stories about travelling in the South. A scary story about driving from Atlanta to Baton Rouge (via Sappho’s Breathing) and a much more enjoyable story about holidays in New Orleans. As I might have mentioned before, I’m going to Baton Rouge and New Orleans next month, so I’m lapping up these stories right now.

If you’re looking for some comedy after all that, I highly recommend Homestar Runner to the 3 of you who haven’t seen it before now.