A few quick ones to start the week off right.
- Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono? Nice, well-meaning people, but Hoodlumman has a better suggestion for Time Magazine's 'Persons of the Year', with nifty Photoshop cover art.
- Ed Morrissey notes a Washington Times story that Sunni leaders in Iraq now want more cooperation and involvement with the Americans, not less.
- Dr. Sanity gives a basic course in psychological defense mechanisms. See how many of the problematic ones you use, and how many of the mature. I remember these from back when it was only DSM-III!
- Rob at Say Anything notes a chart in the NY Times tracking civilian deaths in various conflicts. Surprise: the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq are at the low end of the scale. The death toll of Iraqi civilians between the Iran-Iraq war and the first Gulf War is 6 times larger than in the current conflict.
- Leopold Stotch at Outside The Beltway brings to the forefront a UCLA study confiming liberal media bias.
"I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican," said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study's lead author. "But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are."