Our linkfest offering readers a menu of posts from sites of varying opinions. Links do not necessarily represent the opinion of TMV or its writers.
What is the Lernaean Hydra and how does it relate to Iraq? The answer is HERE.
What John Edwards Does Over The Break: We’ll give you a hint: it ain’t break dancing. Neil at Ezra Klein has the details. But he also gets into some other interesting areas such as this:
I’m convinced that effectively working the media is mostly a matter of constructing an appealing narrative about your candidate and feeding that narrative relentlessly. People talk about “Teflon candidates” to whom no smears stick, and a big part of that is defining your candidate so strongly that attacks which seek to define your candidate otherwise can’t get traction. While it would’ve been entirely justified to attack Bush for his complete refusal to do anything about North Korea in 2004, he had already defined himself as the candidate of bold foreign policy action with the Iraq War, which made it challenging to tag him with a contrary label.
Read the rest.
A Plan For Victory In Iraq is offered in detail by Darian Wilson at his new blog by the same name. Wilson also works for Stars & Stripes. Is his a good plan or not? We suspect people on all sides will have something to say once they read it…and that’s his point…to offer it as a conversation starter.
Is The Ruling Class And Are The Wise Old Men Angry At Bush? And Why? Thoughts from Atrios.
If You Thought Your Christmas Fruitcake Tasted Had A Weird Vomit Taste HERE’S WHY. (Of course, any high school student will tell you that ALL school lunches taste like vomit..)
Who’s The REAL Time Person Of The Year? HE IS.
The Acclaimed And Needed (especially if you had to wait in line at the DMV) Suicide Hotline Is Threatened…by the federal government again. The government is quietly trying to take over the non-profit groups lines. Read Taylor Marsh’s MUST READ.
Did You Hear The Latest Scandal About (GASP!) Barack Obama’s MIDDLE HAME? Details HERE.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.