Woven Web #2 - Links Out of Control

I'm sorta caught up with all of you. And here I prove it. I've been reading. And it may not be a Sac, but it's something.

THEMES

California Fires
Saving the Family Dog...but at a price. I'd risk it for my cats. From Single Southern Guy.

The Fat Guy defines how immense the fires really are, uh, were..

Alpha Patriot talks forests and liberals, oh my, oh my.

Cori Dauber from the Volokh Conspiracy talks about The Tragedy Template.

Romulus talks about the Week of Fire

Matthew J. Stinson (you know him from A Fearful Symmetry) discusses Forest Management. Check out his personal page, too.

Sandra Day O'Connor
Ith reminds Justice O'Connor what her duties are.

Ravenwood reminds her, too.

DONALD LUSKIN v. ATRIOS?
The first I saw of this issue, by John Cole of Balloon-Juice.

Thoughts on the anonymity veil and some of the givens, by Lawrence Simmons of Amish Tech Support.

Snippet by Arguing with Signposts about the same issue.

A humorous take on Luskin from Tom Burka.

Pejman has a few things to say about it from the legal perspective.

Jon at QandO calls for Luskin's admission of wrongdoing.

Allen B. West issue
Matt from Blackfive discusses West at length.

Baldilocks weighs in with Military Intelligence.

And Serenity very civilly disagrees with Blackfive.

Dissing Ted Rall
Carl Heppenstall gets a few words in edgewise regarding Rall's column about the Republican National Convention.

Michele punches on Ted Rall again. Can't say I blame her. He wears a target.

Beards!
Metrosexuality? Not!

Interested-Participant talks beards. Beards creep me out.

Porn!
Mike Courtney: On Cows and Porn.

James from Outside the Beltway - the notorious babe o' blogosphere linker - tells us alllll about how it is, Naomi Wolf be damned.

No Theme A'tall
Harvey of Bad Money brings you autographed money. Hee haw.

Only one, Kevin?

Steve Hall freaks us out with that Tammy Faye pic. Yikes!

Chris Lawrence discusses top blogs and preferences.

Spoons talks about black migration southward. Interesting, and something I'd not heard/read.

Hans snarks on corporate policy and Halloween.

Allison: Give me Pizza or Give me School?

Also Allison, Israel trumps Iran and North Korea in threat factor. Bizarre.

Lee at See the Donkey has a wonderful post about Japan.

Meryl Yourish brings us Catblogging! Meow, Tig.

Owen brings us the binary clock.

The Smash household gets a woofer!

Big Arm Woman is confused by the gender genie. I am, too. It's pegged me as male all but once.

Arthur Silber dissects the reasons behind CBS's edits on its Reagans miniseries.

Susanna defines resume for those who might replace her in her current (but not for long) employment.

Yoohoo! Allah! I'm over HERE.

TheYeti talks business.

Politics? Hate 'em - on One Little Victory.

Dean Esmay teaches us about Levant.

Free Links! Oh, and don't forget snark love.

In a topic near to my own employment, Deb of Write Lightning talks outsourcing.

Aaron from Free Will reminds us of Despair.com by pointing out the new demotivational posters. Priceless.

Max Jacob on "Inventions."

Rethinking Juice. You?

I best call this a parable, from VodkaPundit. Aaah, Oppression. Styled by Ilyka Damen.

More Adventures of the Rumsfeld Strangler.

Kelly from The Patriette furthervilifies Ted Kennedy.

Robert Prather hosts this week's Carnival of the Capitalists. Cha-ching!

Quiz results confuse Trey Givens. Don't worry - it'll all be normal in the morning, Trey!

JustOneMinute declares the letter of the day to be P. Kinda.

Michael Williams admits his age, but there's a whole lot more to it than that. Like, college-aged kids and conservative values.

The Sophorist reminds St. Louis American readers that there is a Republican Party.

Because we all need a touch of optimism, Dana of Note-It Posts talks about the advantages of pregnancy in winter.

Physics Geek gives us song titles in Latin.

PsychoSoph gives us 13 ways to ward of Halloween holiday pounds, but you're gonna have to go looking for them b/c permalinks are Blogsplatted. Yick.

The Dissident Frogman discusses peace and hate in the Middle East.

Scott Ott: This just in - Head Start Reform.

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The Woven Web #1

Well, in my redesign phase, I was still collecting a list of all of the wonderful things I read in the last few days. I just haven't had the chance to post them, yet!

This'll likely be a recurring theme, since I'm armed with my mighty RSS aggregator. Everytime I get crazybusy, these'll just accumulate, and I'll make a formal posting of...The Woven Web.

Without further ado and in no particular order, I bring you:

• Kelley of Suburban Blight posts about her hair!
  
  Oh, I so understand. Ms. Frizz here.
  
  
• Michele of A Small Victory bruises Ted Rall. Good girl.
  
  
• Ith of Absinthe & Cookies has a wonderful cat story Aww on command. That's her post title.
  
  
• Entering Wisconsin! Your name in cheeeeeeese! Via Confetti Falling.
  
  
• Healthy Lifestyle Benefits?. Not a bad idea - seems to be cropping up all over the place. From Flame Turns Blue.
  
  
• The ever-hilarious Aaron from Free Will feeds us the truth about Vladimir Putin. Feared.
  
  
• Robert Prather talks Iraq (in that way only Robert Prather can).
  
  
• Michael Williams of Master of None writes about . But not of the Fearful kind.
  
  
• The rats don't care about their names in cheese. But if they're cloned in Scott Ott's world, look out.
  
  
• Rarr! Don't mess with the big cats, you fools at the ELF.
  
  
• I laughed out loud! Take that, Spoons.
  
  
• Yet another Lance Armstrong interview. Via Flame Turns Blue.
  
  
• Hans presents to the mortal public his coding philosophy.
  
  
• The Yeti states thus (and more): I want clear headed, classically educated, and morally strong people in the White House, regardless of their gender or the color of their skin.. Oh, and regarding that group sex quote (now I know everyone will visit this link) - take an anonymous poll and all of the "shocked" onlookers suddenly have NO problems with said activity any longer. No?
  
  
• Coming soon to your moral community, when will pulling the plug on an intelligent computer be a computer homicide?
  
  
• Pejman Yousefzadeh proposes lobotomies for Republicans Harrison Bergeron style. I snickered in a non-ladylike way.
  
  
• Harvey of Bad Money seems to have some gametime derision aimed at Matt of Blackfive. Don't worry, Harvey, my esteemed spouse is a Milwaukee native, cheesehead in reach (sometimes on head), and cackling at this game. I think you'll get bragging rights.
  
  

And I think I'm gonna call it a night. I still have a backlog, but most of that'll be posts and not mere links, so, there's always more.

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