Hi all. It's great to be back. Have a happy and safe Halloween. (If you don't have a costume, why not go as the divine Tim Tebow trying to be an NFL QB? That's about as scary as it gets.)

Bark Bark Woof Woof: George Will calls Romney "the pretzel candidate." (I hear Mitt, whom Huntsman called "a perfectly lubricated weathervane," is at his best heavily salted and dipped in honey mustard.)

Pruning Shears: Race and the (largely white liberal) Occupy movement. Can't we all just get along?

The Duck of Minerva: War and the Eurozone. Conservatives like Cameron and Merkel are responding to the Euro-crisis by talking statism.

Newshoggers: At this point, there's no way to avoid major, destabilizing climate change. So think adaptation. Now.

And did you hear Pretzel Romney would let Israel dictate U.S. foreign policy? Shameless pandering, of course, but standard Republican fare these days. (American exceptionalism? Ha!)

Round-up by Michael J.W. Stickings of The Reaction. I'll be here all week.

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