With the world’s weight resting on your blogwatch,

You’re gonna need someone on your side…

BeaucoupKevin: I’m number three! I’m number three! …I get smacked in comments, though, for going over the 35-word limit. I don’t know how I missed that, since I was using a cute little word-count program. But my entry was about Planetes, and Planetes is all about how human error and human weaknesses can’t be overcome through technological change, and so… um, yes, shutting up now. Anyway, woohoo!, congratulations to winner Dave Lartigue and second-place finisher Johanna Draper Carlson, and props to Kevin for running this neat-o contest.

Sarah Dylan: Putting Herod back in Christmas. Good stuff. Via Noli Irritare Leones.

Volokh Conspiracy: Interesting review of The Plot Against America. “Roth seems completely unaware of the irony that the presumed savior of the Jews (and democracy) is the only president who ever actually consigned an American ethnic group to concentration camps in the hinterlands; the Japanese are never mentioned in the book.”