NOTES

Read about Balasubramania's beef with Glenn Reynold's deflection problems.

For some political and social commentary from the lovely Hudson Valley, check out e-town. This site also describes current Democratic get-out-the-vote drives. Cool stuff.

Take a look at the very attractive eschatonic times, which recently includes a series of posts (with pictures) on street musicians in Mainz, Germany. . .and a post criticizing the media for ignoring western demonstrations for democracy in Iran, a post that would make Josh Cherniss and Patrick at Oxblog happy, I think, at least to the extent that the post calls attention to the media's lack of coverage of "pro-democracy" demonstrations. The blog's characterization of the anti-war movement as "actually anti-Bush people that couldn't care less about individual freedoms" is ridiculous, but the site is still worth a look, especially for commentary on life as an ex-pat in Germany.

MORE: and thanks to Unfogged for the link. Unfogged has also got a good take on Tenet's resignation:

Incidentally, this should answer the question of why George Tenet kept his job despite the CIA's many mistakes. You keep guys who are willing to take the fall for you around.

MORE: Not knowing much about him, I'm not sure why Tenet would take the fall here, though.

MORE: Josh says I made a bad call above; the views on Iran at eschatonic times on the pro-Iranian demonstrations aren't really on target. To be fair, however, the author is upset about the media not covering Iran as well (and not just pro-Iranian democracy demonstrations in the West). If the permalinks are working, this post makes that point more clearly.

And, at any rate, as the saying goes, "politics makes strange bedfellows."