"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Slate's BS-o-meter: Nice job in calling out both U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige and the Bush Administration as a whole on the Bush tax plan.

This is cool: Dave Winer (the Radio Userland guy) is going to Harvard to be, essentially, Harvard's "blogger-in-residence" (coined by Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit). He also links to a cool paper on Personal Knowledge Publishing. Blogging becomes a realm of (formal) academic attention.