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This is the blogwatch…

Raed in the Middle: Raed Jarrar and his family are running a fund drive for Iraqi hospitals. It’s done through PayPal and Raed promises frequent updates on funding and where it’s going. Click here to learn how you can help.

Unqualified Offerings: I’m wrong about the Sybilicious Doom Patrol plot. Jim is probably right. I think the plot had irritated me so much by the end that my reading veered from uncharitable into plainly inaccurate. I was more peeved by the very, very silly “I’m not a man because my body is made of metal! Except for my brain! And stuff.” speech than by the chick-saving, really. This speech seems like it should have set us up for the mind/body shtik in the last section (with the Brain and Monsieur Mallah the gorilla), except that a) it’s stupid (brain = flesh = body, pussycats) and b) the Brain/Mallah thing gets stupidized in order to produce a cute-ish plot twist.

“Twilight of the Liberal Hawks”: Or, Yesterday, when they were mad. Scathing Tim Cavanaugh piece about Iraq-war supporters for Kerry, with lots of points equally applicable to, uh, me. Via Hit & Run, I think, as well as Unqualified Offerings.