Scant Mercy

• Long and beautiful post at flip flopping joy about roadkill, Battlestar Galactica, absent fathers and the Chicano archetype.  Very worth the time.

• It would undoubtedly shock Geller and her Islamophobic buddies to know that Muslims have been in America for so long they could almost have formed a welcoming committee to the Daughters of the Revolution.

  Lynn Parramore at Naked Capitalism. There's more.  I believe I mentioned that the Syrian community of lower Manhattan predated the Civil War.
• Southern Beale at First Draft:  Please Just Go Galt Already.

  Yes, please go. Go now. Don't wait until November. You are a bloated leech on the hard work of the middle class, the real engine of our economy, and the very people whom you deride as living a worry-free existence thanks to your sacrifice. This country would be better off without you. Ta-ta. Buh-bye.