Blogwatching the detectives

Don’t get cute…

Body and Soul: Afghan women making French documentaries.

Brink Lindsey assesses the nifty Bush trade proposal. His take? “Signs point to yes!”, basically, but he has a few caveats. He also has notes from his trip to Tokyo and Seoul.

Noli Irritare Leones: Defending Courage. Eloquent and fierce.

Oblique (and permalinkless) House: Story that truly illustrates the meaning of “it’s the thought that counts”–how a Jaguar commercial this year snidely echoes a sweet family story. Scroll down to “Ooooh, noooo.”

Regions of Mind: Scroll around for a rich series of posts on the Confederate flag. (Including a Confederate/Clash anecdote from 1982!)

Sed Contra (blog of David “Beyond Gay” Morrison) is back!

Unqualified Offerings: Artists against art subsidies; excellent post on the luckless Kurds.

…when they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot…