Mind fried

I’m not sure why. Everything’s been going well, but I can’t summon up the focus for any sort of sustained blogging. So, what else? Link-time!
•Glenn Greenwald discusses the risks of partisan thinking. And here he is on the myth that 9/11 memorials and commemorations aren’t political.
•Slacktivist on the merits of pity.
•Adam Gopnick on why we can’t have nice things. Answer: Some people hate nice things (“hey hate fast trains and efficient airports for the same reason that seventeenth-century Protestants hated the beautiful Baroque churches of Rome when they saw them: they were luxurious symbols of an earthly power they despised.”).
•What Digby says here.
•Kevin Drum on the modern American security state. James Bamford describes the post-9/11 shift in the NSA toward spying on American citizens.
•Even among evangelicals, the millenial generation is more gay-friendly.
•Right-bloggers on science, as surveyed by Roy Edroso.
Now I shall either try to write some fiction … or I won’t (I have the time to spare, so it’s up to me).