The focus in the media is still on Weiner's crotch, alas, but what's far more significant is that the GOP continues to commit slow-motion political suicide by throwing in its entire lot with the Ryan plan. Uh, good luck with that.

Distributorcap NY: Sarah Palin is back! And the media are chasing after her like a bunch of Keystone Kops.

Smart Politics: Two Minnesotans, Pawlenty and Bachmann, could turn out to be leading contenders on the GOP side in 2012. Historically, how do same-state, same-party rivals do?

Vagabond Scholar: For all that we remember those who died in war, we mustn't forget that war itself is hell. And there's more than enough recent evidence to prove it.

Rising Hegemon: Anti-American and anti-British, FIFA is awesomely corrupt. (What's worse, FIFA or the IOC?)

And for something a little different:

Kiko's House: An appreciation of Mary Wollstonecraft, the 18th century English writer and women's rights advocate.

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

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