I remember a blogwatch sleeping next to me

Riding on the Metro…

A World Connected is sponsoring a lecture tour on globalization by Cato’s Tom Palmer. Looks very cool. Find out when he’s coming to your town! (Via The Agitator.)

Matthew Yglesias: Snort! For the record, hunger is when you feel like somebody’s hollowed out your insides, and sleepiness is when your eyelids feel heavy and your thinking-thing feels like someone is trying to smother it with a wet towel.

The Rat: Trauma, rape, and repression vs. expression. Permalinks not working, scroll down to “On trauma and post-trauma.”

Unqualified Offerings: The Communist backgrounds of some leaders of the former USSR. UO is citing this in order to discredit the idea of a “New Europe” that supports war on Iraq as part of a generalized support for the United States and liberation-wars. I don’t think that’s accurate, since “New Europe” is generally taken, I think, to track roughly the eight leaders who signed this letter pushing for UN-based disarmament of Saddam Hussein; of those men, only two turn up on the back-in-the-USSR list UO quotes. I don’t think anyone could accuse Vaclav Havel of supporting the US because of his pinko-apparatchik desire to cave to the biggest bully on the block. However, the post is worth reading for its own sake, if you want depressing news about Eastern Europe.