We’ll be working today on a completely new look for our site. Once we’re up and running, we’d appreciate some feedback from the protein wisdom diehards (and you know who you are, Moms and Dads…).

Referring to Virginia Postrel’s site, Justin Slotman offers this candid observation of the blogosphere: I notice she’s perpetuating the me-zine/blog split with her links section. She sets it up like this: me-zines are by professional writers, blogs are by everybody else. I think that’s the distinction. It’s not an arbitrary division that she’s making, but it might be an unnecessary one. I think a more appropriate split would be blogs

Flit’s Bruce Rolston takes issue with Rich Lowry’s National Review article “Geneva Absurdity“: “I’ll say it again. The conventions explicitly protect anyone, in a uniform or not, who rises up in defense of their homeland. Whatever else you say about the average Taliban soldier, it’s fair to say that is what they were trying to do. The U.S. has some Taliban members under its power. The U.S. has previously promised

They’re saying it ain’t a blog, but the folks over at The National Review are serializing eclectic, bite-sized morsels of punditry, which they update frequently and make available for online consumption. In short, they’re bloggin’. Cool site, called “The Corner.” Check it out. (But it’s definitely a blog…)

The Washington Times is reporting that “a lack of communication in recent weeks by those close to Osama bin Laden” is “causing some analysts” within the intelligence community “to believe he may be executing a ruse to convince Washington he is dead.” Officials said a small minority of intelligence analysts believe the dry spell could indicate that bin Laden is dead. He appeared tired and stressed in his last known

The National Review’s Rich Lowry points out the logical inconsistency in our European critics’ “concerns” over Gitmo, the Al Qaeda detainees (POWs?), and the Geneva Convention. In “Geneva Absurdity,” Lowry writes, […] the Geneva Convention seeks to protect innocent civilians by keeping soldiers in uniform, and by defining those combatants who don’t wear uniforms as being outside the rules of warfare and undeserving of the privileges afforded to legitimate prisoners

Andrew Sullivan, writing in today’s WSJ’s Opinion Journal, calls erstwhile Talk editor Tina Brown “the Bill Clinton of journalism.” What doomed Talk to failure, Sullivan argues, was Brown’s allegiance to […] the crazed cult of contemporaneity, the insistent, relentless outer-directedness of an editor who saw what was hot as always and everywhere preferable to what is true, who believed that an article was nothing unless it had been spun and

“John loves America. We love America,” Frank Lindh said after this morning’s hearing for his son, John Walker. He also said his son was innocent of the charges, a Washington Post story reports. I don’t doubt Mr. Lindh loves America. I don’t doubt he loves his son. But “John loves America”? C’mon. …Color me skeptical. [Update: Walker’s defense is taking on shape. ‘Tseems the U.S. Government, particulary the DOD and

In an on-location report on “Good Morning America,” the GMA correspondent — describing Johnny Taliban’s first court appearance — had this to say: “I was struck at how young he looked, how frightened. He seemed dazed, lost, almost stumbling into the courtroom, flanked by two large guards.” Let the mushy, touchy-feely framing of Johnny Walker as poor, lost, misunderstood soul begin. We’re not putting on trial a traitorous Islamo-scab who

Two new blogs to mention — both run by Harvard undergrads [insert Cornel West joke here] and both self titled. Meet Matthew Yglesias and Glenn Kinen. If we play our cards right, perhaps one of these two (if not both) can snatch us a lock of Samuel Huntington’s hair… Best of luck, fellas! — pw