More stuff you should be reading instead of this lousy blog…

• Via Shrillblog, Seymour Hersh applies Occam’s Razor to the Bush administration and concludes that the simplest explanation is that they actually believe their own bullshit.

• Digby has a nice critique of George Lakoff which I rather agree with.

• Via Political Animal, EJ Dionne takes on the hypocrisy around the tug of war over George Bush’s service record.

• Good, hard-hitting speech from John Kerry yesterday. See The Talent Show’s condensed version or read the whole thing.

• On reading this at Brad DeLong’s blog on a particular case of abuse at Abu Ghraib, I am reminded that our government’s response to this has been pathetic. A few bad apples or not, doesn’t a responsible leader express outrage and disappointment and engage in some sort of contrition?

• According to First Draft, the Bush administration has a plan to convert almost $3.5 billion of Iraqi reconstruction money from infrastructure to security. Stupid, stupid, dumb, stupid dumb… The insurgency is going to get worse if the infrastructure doesn’t get better.

• It’s disgraceful, also, that no one has asked this question: “Who—I ask you, WHO—has asked why tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women, and children had to die so that America could avenge the deaths of three thousand in New York?” More, including a link to the original piece, at Sid’s Fishbowl.

• Interesting note at The Washington Monthly on the split between urban and rural political sensibilities.

• Everything I Ever Needed to Know About the Movement of Chess Pieces I Learned One Night In A Bar. (GapingVoid)

• The new BBC production of “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” premieres tonight. As long as their servers can handle the load, you can stream the episodes here. (via Slashdot)

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