I can see clearly now, the rain is gone;

I can see all blogwatches in my way…

Mumpsimus: What’s wrong with infodumps anyway?, and other questions on exposition in fiction. (Be sure to read the comments, too.)

Sed Contra is back!

And, from the Asia Times: Economic growth hasn’t stopped repression of journalists, Buddhists, and Christians in Vietnam. (Via Colby Cosh.)

ETA: Mansfield Fox on closing a rooming house in New Haven: “For the tenants’ own sake, we must thrust them out of the only in-city housing they can afford, and onto the streets!”