I redid the blogroll on the left (in the Radio version of this site) based on some new functionality in Radio 8.0.8. Looks good.  11:34:20 PM    

'Star Wars' franchise needs helping Han: "I realized after seeing "Episode I" what was wrong with this new "Star Wars" series, despite its visual wonders: No Han Solo. The new series has no everyman, no skeptic. Who am I to relate to? Where am I up on that screen" -- Dave Arnold, Sheriden, OR in a letter to Roger Ebert. I agree completely [Via Andrew Pulrang]  10:25:15 PM    

Carnegie Endowment - Power and Weakness: "Europe is turning away from power, or to put it a little differently, it is moving beyond power into a self-contained world of laws and rules and transnational negotiation and cooperation. It is entering a post-historical paradise of peace and relative prosperity, the realization of Kant's "Perpetual Peace." The United States, meanwhile, remains mired in history, exercising power in the anarchic Hobbesian world where international laws and rules are unreliable and where true security and the defense and promotion of a liberal order still depend on the possession and use of military might. That is why on major strategic and international questions today, Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus: They agree on little and understand one another less and less."  10:03:40 PM