-Hey, did YOU know that Pakistan is going to hell in a handbasket? Me neither! I guess we've all been a wee bit busy trying to invade Iran. [CS Monitor]
(P.S. Biden is totally on the beat. So is The Atlantic.)

-Will the Crusades never end? A special report. [Economist]

-Once in a while, a mothy academic unearths a quaint and long-forgotten document called a constitution and performs a purely theoretical thought experiment in which Congress shall have the sole power to declare war and raise and support the armed forces. [WaPo]

-The rise and rise of Joe Trippi. [TNR]

This article contains the following phrase, which should be reason enough for you to want to read it: "The sex and shopping habits of four rich Saudi girls." [Reason]

-A superhighway from Mexico to U.S. to Canada that subverts national sovereignty, carries truckloads of Chinese toys and toothpaste, and brings brown people! Aux armes, citoyens! [The Nation]

-Michael Bloomberg's billions and billions. [Newsweek]

-It's a sad day in America when LaRouche's little moonbat army runs out of ink and paper and can no longer harass us on our way to the Metro. [Washington Monthly]

-Music, and why your parents are so hopelessly square. [The New Criterion]

-Apostate? Geostrategic soothsayer? A rogue political scientist who brought rational choice theory into the mainstream wants to change the nature of the field -- and use predictions to propose better foreign policy. I have no idea what I just said but it sounded pretty smart. [Good Magazine]