You’ve been watched.

You’re going to get blogged.

No uniform is gonna keep you warm…

(I’ve been on a big Elvis Costello/Violent Femmes/Mendelssohn kick over here. Hope the neighbors don’t mind.)

Body and Soul: Important post on DynCorp crimes (although she doesn’t draw the natural conclusion that free enterprise doesn’t do all the things she talks about at the beginning of her post when governments ally themselves with corporations, because free market pressures no longer apply). Plus a long series on liberalism vs. multiculturalism (scroll down), which I haven’t read yet.

Julian Sanchez: Why does pain feel bad? (Cue Daffy Duck: “I’m not like other people. I can’t stand pain. It hurts me.”)

Unqualified Offerings: House concerts, a.k.a. “Mom, is it OK if we have a few people over in the basement while you’re out of town?” UO is mistaken if he thinks REALLY REALLY LOUD bands never do house concerts…. One thing I can definitely counsel against, is hosting a “house art show” as a friend of mine did in high school. People have some really messed-up ideas of what constitutes art these days. Just don’t ask, really.

And yes, this Washington Post piece by a guy whose son is in the Marines is great.