Weekend Blog Links

• Matt Yglesias blogs about the Pentagon's plans to bully the next president into massive defense spending increases.


• Juan Cole addresses McCain's defense of Obama as a decent man, not an Arab. As if the two things are mutually exclusive...


• Borowitz Report writes about John McCain's casting call for irate white people.


• The Left Coaster writes about one of my favorite topics, Free Market Fundamentalism.


• Tapped has an interesting post on ACORN and the important distinction between voter fraud and registration fraud.


• Same Facts chimes in on the idiocy of Sarah Palin being sent to drop the first puck at a Philadelphia Flyers game.


• The inimitable Jesus' General posts an ad by the group Passionately Credulous Bigots for McCain.


• Over at Alas! blog, a suspected serial killer clears himself. I, too, have been regularly clearing myself of various crimes big and small ever since I learned from the McCain campaign that one can do so.