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August 15th 2008     

Watcher’s Winners

Posted by: Laer at 07:20 am

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his week’s stand-in Watcher of Weasels, The Glittering Eye, has posted the Council’s picks for the week’s best reading and a mighty fine list it is.

I don’t know how often I’ve voted for Wolf Howling’s entry as the best of the bunch, but I did again this week, as did enough of my Council buddies to put his post, “Obama, Criminalizing Politics & Thinking The Unthinkable” in first. WH normally deals with big global stuff, but this week his focus is domestic: The Left’s desire to shut down any dissenting voices (that would be, per the last election, a bit over 50 percent of us).

Tying for second were Soccer Dad’s departure from things Israeli and into the John Edwards love child story, “Not up to the standards of the national enquirer *UPDATED*” and host The Glittering Eye’s “Civis Americanus Sum,” which uses one of my favorite books, Flatland, as a launching point.

On the non-Council side, a piece that went down the same path as Wolf Howling, “The Columbia Journalism Review’s Division Over Dissent,” which appeared in Slate, was the runaway winner, thanks in part to my vote for it. Also of note is Pundita’s “To any and all U.S. forces in Georgia: STAND DOWN,” which can best be summarized as a pro-Russia piece on the current small war in Georgia. I didn’t vote for it; I found it troubling; and I thanked the Watcher of Weasels for creating this affair because otherwise I would have missed this very different POV.

For all the winners, visit The Glittering Eye.

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