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Favorite Reads- Can development workers win wars?"THE most effective tools of US policy in Afghanistan today are the agricultural development teams composed of Army National Guard personnel drawn from places such as my home state of Nebraska," says John Nagl, the former Army lieutenant colonel and counterinsurgency expert, in an article ("The Expeditionary Imperative") in the Wilson Qua […]Economist.com
- Eating dogsSo long as we're talking about meat, I might as well link this op-ed by Jonathan Safron Foer arguing that we should all eat dog. Foer is coming out with a book on vegetarianism soon, and though the initial excerpt in the New York Times seemed plodding and banal, this takes more, and more useful, risks: Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But th […]Ezra Klein
- "Reacting to the music's roll and tumble, Dylan and Sexton squatted and swayed, as if ducking out of the way of the sharp notes, snapping chords and fierce sentiments.""Vicious currents blew through a majority of the material. Violence cast a pall over 'Ain't Talkin',' while a re-imagined 'Just Like a Woman' threw sarcastic daggers. Better still, the scampering 'Highway 61 Revisited' and scathing 'Ballad of a Thin Man' evoked sinister desires."That was excellently […]Ann Althouse
- Health Care Reform = HellfireFun People. Randall Terry and fellow anti-abortion protestors staked out congressional staffers this morning with costumes and street theater dramatizing how said staffers will soon be burning in hellfire along with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid for supporting health care reform. "The fire hurts!!!" See the video.Josh Marshall
- Whose Country? CtdA reader writes: The reader who wrote about the banjo should check out the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a string band out of North Carolina that formed after meeting at the 2005 Black Banjo Conference. They gave a rousing concert for a (mostly-white) Minneapolis audience, and also pitched this book, which tells the story of how "Dixie", the anthem of […]Andrew Sullivan
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