I have some actual work to do today -- anyone who knows of good research about customer relations for life insurance using 800-numbeers and/or the internet, contact me -- so I'm just going to give y'all a few tasty links to chew on.

In the world of comics, Garry Trudeau has taken off the gloves, his last two comics are pretty openly critical of what's going on now. The rest of the "town hall" site is pretty cool too. Tom Tomorrow is always fresh, as is Ted Ralls, but Ward Sutton still hits the hardest.

Now for some paranoia-inducing off-beat sources of news. The site aeronautics.ru carries translations of russian websites that purportedly contain leaks from various intel sources over there. Debkafile stokes the engines of fear from Israel. Al Jazeera is still off the web thanks to a continuted DoS attack. If you're just looking for some up-to-the-minute coverage without putting on your tinfoil hat, I suggest the agonist. For a more political angle, read the comments on daily kos. If you're in need of a reprive, keep up with McDonald's smashing news at IsThatLegal.

And finally, your daily peek into the pro-war mindset: "If history—especially that of the Cold War—teaches us anything, it's that peace (if we take peace to simply mean "the absence of armed conflict") and justice have an annoying tendency of being mutually exclusive." That's right folks, war is justice.