Did you know that there are eight kinds of Republican? So how can anyone say that the Republicans are against diversity? "Become Republican" is a Flash comic-strip by Brian Frisk.

"Ignoring the Air War" by Dahr Jamail at AlterNet.

At one point, Jamail comments "One can easily imagine the potential for disaster at a future moment when Shia and Kurdish militia members in Iraqi army uniforms would be calling down air-strikes on Sunni neighborhoods, settling old scores as civilian casualties went through the roof."

Indeed, even without the foreseen increase in the air war in Iraq, this appears to be what's happening already on the ground, if the reports of death-squads rounding up and executing people are to be believed. (See here).

Kim Willsher reports for the U.K.'s Telegraph "'Official' history angers teachers" . . . in France, that is.

In the U.S.A. today of course journalists, whom I like to think of as frontline historians, don't need laws imposed upon them to report only the "official" story--they do it all on their own.

"The body snatchers' legacy to medicine" by Jane Elliott at BBC News.

It was inevitable, wasn't it?

"Oliver Stone shooting 9-11 movie in LA" at HNN (originally from The New York Times).

"The Best Introduction to the Mountains" is a thoughtful essay, with ramifications both political and philisophical, on J. R. R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings, by Gene Wolfe, author of The Book of the New Sun novels, and There Are Doors (which last is not coincidentally the latest book I've read), among other things.