Playing Catch Up

OMG! Way too busy to blog lately. I empathize with the bloggers who do this professionally and crank out stuff hour after hour, day after day. There is too much to write about now, but here are some interesting links, go check them out!

• "Stuck in the Iraq Loop" A Newsweek article by Fareed Zakaria
  We have achieved some security in Iraq. But we have not built a sustainable security architecture.
• "Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War" A photo essay by Reuters. Warning: some graphic images.
• "A Responsible Plan to End the War"
• Various reactions to Obama's speech on Tuesday from TPM Cafe.
• From DailyKos, author David Brin (Earth, Startide Rising) pays tribute to his colleague Arthur C. Clarke (2001: A Space Odyssey) who died this week.
• Coming soon! Photos of our incredibly cute new puppy and kitten!!!!