Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Food Blogs... Food Blogs.... Posted Jul 18, 2005, 10:22 PM ET by Jason Calacanis on his blog, he ponders, "Are there any good food blogs out there?" If there are people out there who love to eat, there are great food blogs. Daily Eats considers itself a great food blog. By (Tery Spataro). [Daily Eats - Food Lovers Unite!] 8:48:36 PM

Rove Article By ANNE MARIE SQUEO and JOHN D. MCKINNON WSJ Memo Article. Further smashing a hole in the Republican argument that Valerie Plame was a desk jockey, or that Rove didn't know he shouldn't utter her name, the Wall Street Journal reports: A classified State Department memo that may be pivotal to the CIA leak case made clear that information identifying an agent and her role in her husband's intelligence-gathering mission was sensitive and shouldn't be shared, according to a person familiar with the document. A special prosecutor is investigating whether Bush administration officials broke the law by intentionally outing a covert intelligence operative. Investigators are trying to determine if the memo, dated June 10, 2003, was how White House officials learned that Valerie Wilson was an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency. Running out of excuses.... [Mathew Gross - Deride and Conquer] 8:22:47 PM

Get in Line Political placeholders. In Washington, D.C., at least, you can make decent money standing in line in the halls of power.... [seattlepi.com Buzzworthy] 7:30:19 AM

The Great Cost of War Paying the Real Cost of War. Estimated civilian casualties in Iraq: 25,000. A new study by the Oxford Research Group and Iraq Body Count estimates that 1 in 1000 Iraqis have been killed since the US invasion began. They further estimate that 37 percent of these deaths were caused by coalition forces, and 9 percent were killed by the insurgents. Estimated civilian wounded: 42,500. Over 1700 US troops have also died, and over 18,000 have been injured. [MetaFilter] 7:19:36 AM