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“We have taken a ball of quicksilver,” says the counterinsurgency specialist John Arquilla, “and hit it with a hammer.”

Experiment: Summer re-runs? Unseen footage? Recyclable blogging? Lacking any sounder thoughts to not-rant about, I try an experiment: publishing recent info-laden emails I’ve written in hopes they’ll help direct future Googlers to the same cool stuff I’ve been discovering and discussing, until now, just among my circle of friends.

First up: Noodler’s fountain pen ink, smooth flowing, non-feathering, richly opaque, waterproof, sunproof, and, according to Noodler’s security challenge, forgery-proof.

The extent of my silence lately surprises even me, someone who doesn’t say much anyway.

NY Times: Frank Rich: ‘Those who live by Fox News can die by Fox News.’

Orcinus: David Neiwert: ‘One of the real keys to understanding our situation is realizing that conservatism and the “conservative movement” are in fact two entirely different things.’

New Yorker: Seymour Hersh: ‘Such dehumanization is unacceptable in any culture, but it is especially so in the Arab world.’