Who sails the ships out of Blogwatch,

Laden with Bibles and rum?

Megan McArdle: You should be reading Megan anyway, because she gets both the problems with the current US health-care system and the problems with the proposed fixes; but I found this post especially interesting for its discussion of what the euro can and can’t do.

Sean Collins:

Digression: In writing about film for this blog I’ve noticed that I don’t talk about form the way I do with comics. Like I said, I’ve lost a lot of that vocabulary, which in turn limits my ability to think that way, and that’s really sad. When I first started regularly reviewing comics–probably for The Comics Journal–it took a shot by Milo George at the state of comics criticism to make me realize that I was doing the usual formula: Three or four paragraphs about the writing, one paragraph about the art, a “to be sure” paragraph, and a conclusion. Figuring out that comics are a visual medium ain’t rocket science, so to confer upon myself a rocket-science degree if you will, I tried to fix this the easiest way I could: I began forcing myself to start reviews by talking about the visual aspects of the comics.

more–I’ll be pushing myself this way as well

The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings. I wouldn’t care really, but now that I really like Deadpool… I mean really, the pouches and the buttocks and the… the hands that don’t do what they should and the FEET the FEET the BARBIE FEET I just can’t… well yeah, basically Liefeld is genuinely as bad as you’ve heard. And this takedown is mostly funny!

The Richard Hofstedter Drinking Game.

“The next conservative thinkers.” Surprisingly not-awful.