Notes from the Z-List

A brief roundup of some worthwhile (and overlooked) posts from our fellow Z-list bloggers:

• Aaron Barlow of One Flew East writes a personal story with national implications, about the value of admitting defeat: "Sometimes you just have to admit mistakes, bow your head, go home, and attend to business there. Call that "defeatism" if you want, but it's the only realistic path."


• JFaber of Rooted Cosmopolitans with a hostile FAQ about the war: "Imagine that victory in Iraq is like eating a nice hot burrito, but we don't have an oven, or a microwave, or any obvious way to make fire....Some clever fellows from the Project for a New American Century wrote a paper a few years back saying that if one runs rapidly into a wall, the kinetic energy can be turned into heat, so we decided to try that instead. "


• Mike Bock of Alone on a Limb has some good thoughts on organizing at the local level.


• Sinfonian of Blast Off has a post about Virgil Goode's xenophobic screed: "All he did was send a letter to some...constituents essentially advocating the platform of the Know-Nothing Party....I guess for Goode, "the next century" means the Twentieth."

Post links to other good Z-list stuff (including your own, if you like) in comments.

[That's all, folks]