Ok, I have been caught up. I had also been trying to polish off an article. I did not want to post anything until I was through with that. Here is some random interesting stuff ......

Guardian's take on Solzhenitsyn's new book.

Janeane Garofalo's rather provocative remarks on the Iraq issue (though she lost me with her Chomski suggestion). The story that Kurtz filed is here (the transcript is better).

lazyweb is an interesting idea worth checking out.

Mark Kleiman's very smart weblog

New Yorker's hilarious story on NYT's new code of ethics.