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And she’s got a terminal case of

“Ask too many questions and my Smith & Wesson will answer”…

Angevin2: An awesome, ongoing series evaluating Shakespeare-on-film. Notable for hilarious warnings (“Depressing. Very, very depressing. Even by King Lear standards”; “Do not look directly at Malcolm’s sweater. Contains genuinely terrifying Porter”), interesting interpretive notes (“I don’t know that Lear is an entirely hopeless play, and I don’t believe it should be presented as such”; “[P]erhaps the fact that 2H4 is a play of decline and decay means that it’s easier to do in the BBC’s limited format than the more energetic 1H4“), and exceptionally useful comments (“BTW, if you weren’t already aware, http://www.filmshakespeare.org/ allows side-by-side comparison of editing choices of Henry V, BBC, Branagh and Olivier”–squee!!!!). Part one; part two.

Dappled Things: Saint Andrew the Unappreciated.

Hit & Run: Wal-Mart defenses, one and (ambivalently) two. Lots of links I haven’t investigated… but I bet they offer Wal-Mart defenses at prices much cheaper than those of their competitors.

Christopher Hitchens notes that Dolores Haze would be 70 this year. Not sure how old that would make Humbert Humbert–possibly interesting question is, which is the earliest war that each would remember? …The piece itself is brilliant, by the way, and entirely worth your time. (Via About Last Night.)

Michael Young interviews Peter Galbraith:

Reason: Some say there already is a victor in Iraq, and that’s Iran. Do you agree, and how far can Iran go in Iraq without provoking an Iraqi backlash? …

Reason: Is Iraq better off today than it was under Saddam Hussein?

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Unqualified Offerings: This is a post about Middle Eastern politics and war; but also about Robert Frost, and I kind of feel like I know more about that, so that’s the reason I’m linking.

And you can vote for the best libertarian or “classical liberal” (which I guess means “Enlightenment liberal,” as opposed to my own position, which I will grandiosely describe as “John Paul II liberal” or “personalist liberal”) blog here. Nobody cares what I think, which is why none of my guys are even on this list; but my nominations would be: Hit & Run, because I always learn from their site even when I disagree; Jane Galt, because she and her contributors think hard about stuff I don’t understand (wow, ringing endorsement there!–I hope you know what I mean, though–we share underlying principles, but she knows how to apply them where I can’t); the Club for Growth blog, because they’re a great clearinghouse; Relapsed Catholic, because Kathy (who is also a phenomenal essayist and poet) cuts through a lot of sentimental Catholic B.S.; and The Corner, because whether you love or hate them, no libertarian-symp can afford to ignore them, and they provide a model of constructive Internet disagreement. If Unqualified Offerings posted more these days, he’d be on this list somewhere, too. (Voting link via Los Volokh.)