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1.  Via Allah, national embarrassment Jimmy Carter once again shows off his foreign policy acumen by arguing that “the pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonisation of Palestine.” So far, this piece has appeared only on Tom Paine and Pakistani papers, but, well, every little bit helps, Jimmy.  Seriously.  Just throw up a few houses and all will be forgiven. 2.  Via Ed Hirsch and The Corner, a William Saletan

Managed to get a dermatologist appointment today, so I’m going to bring these bastard moles to a mole expert and get his opinion on them.  I’m hoping he hates them with such a burning fury that he melts them off with a soldering iron.  But don’t tell them I said that.  They’re mean, spiteful, suspicious things, these irregular-shaped lesions—and it was all I could do just to get them to

To Nathan Woods for the Walk the Line DVD.  I’ll admit to having a soft spot for Reese Witherspoon (I’ve liked her since The Man in the Moon—and was blow away by her in both Freeway, a criminally underseen B-movie classic, and Election), and Joaquin Phoenix made me take notice in Too Die For, a cameo role in U-Turn (and of course, as a young kid—“Leaf Phoenix” back then—in Parenthood).