A Pillow Book for Cats — Ursula Le Guin revealing a talent as cartoonist.
Fisking McArdle — almost as perverse an activity as sounds like and she won’t learn a thing anyway, because that’s not why she writes her crap, as this guy realises all too well, but he can’t help himself.
Over at Livejournal, Ross TenEyck had to do jury duty and described the experience for those of us living in a post-Napoleonic law system.
Continuing the legal theme, this judgement (pdf) in which queen bee of the Birthers Orly Taitz is slapped down for wasting the court’s time.
Meanwhile in Holland, the news that Brown is sending more troops to Afghanistan, but only if the Afghan government does x and the NATO allies do y and all the planets are aligned, has given fresh ammo to the people who’d like to extend the Dutch mission once again. We were promised back in 2001/02 that it would be one deployment with no extension, then we got an extension but with the promise that it would end in 2010, no matter what happened and now we have to extend this once again, because we can’t leave our allies behind. Must think we’re born yesterday.