• Brad DeLong proposes a heirarchy of honest conservatives; then his commentator John Emerson dissents. (Via Andrew Sullivan, Honest Conservative Class of 2004)
• Martha Nussbaum argues against academic boycotts (in general, but in the context of Israel). (For my take on the issue, see here.)
• Megan Stack on the horrors of life in a patriarchal theocracy (which just happens to be our country's BFF. Great.)
• Tony Karon -- a South African-born Jew -- makes the case for the apartheid label for Israel in a powerful essay.
• Today's Boing-Boing-Did-You-Click-Through?™ Link: SF writer Charlie Stross on the near impossibility of space colonization (not, as the BoingBoing post mistakenly puts it, space exploration, about which Stross says "Exploring our own solar system is a no-brainer: we can do it, we are doing it...", although he does think that even exploring interstellar distances is probably futile too, as well as colonization of any sort). A must for SF fans and geeks of all descriptions.
• A cartoonist's tribulations: in an ongoing saga at Tom Hart's Hutch Blog, Matt Madden is devising a series of increasingly complex constraints for Tom Hart to use in a week of his daily strip Hutch Owen. (Constraints such as: write it backwards, use 20 panels, only words/fx& not images; etc.) Fun reading for anyone interested in the Ou-x-po aesthetic or cartooning. The best way to read it is probably to begin at the beginning and click through, rather than in usual backwards-blog style. (Update: the five finished strips, with summaries of the various constraints, can be viewed here in their final form.)
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