Wolfgang von Skeptik. . .

. . .emailed to me a link to a great blog, called The Belmont Club. They do an excellent job of taking events and putting them into the wider perspective of the War on Terror. Also, he's been busily blogging:

"Such is the legacy of 'journalism school': a generation of dunces who have no idea how to evaluate their work in the context of the qualitative dialogue that has gone on amongst all serious writers – journalists included – down through the ages. Most of today’s reporters and editors are so thoroughly brainwashed by 'personal-is-political' deconstruction of intellectual standards now foolishly denounced as “patriarchal,” I fear they have become the equivalent of mute singers, blind photographers and deaf musicians, and their output is as accidently foretold by the Bard himself: tales 'told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.' "