Vitriolic

I am too busy at the moment to blog properly, not even to produce the quick links that I've been managing lately. What better way to take the opportunity of this hiatus than to go back to some of the posts you probably didn't read because they are too long. Posts like:

• Americans are from Venus, the French are from Mars (or is it the other way around?) - on Bernard Henri Levy versus Garrison Keillor
• Folk Marxism and American political culture - on John Locke and Karl Marx and American liberalism
• Whining Leftist/Grieving Mother - a guest post by Jogo on Cindy Sheehan and Meryl Streep
• Free speech fundamentalism - on the Orhan Pamuk and David Irving cases, but equally relevant to the MoToons (Danish cartoons) furore
• What's Wrong with Chomsky? - my attack on Professor Noam

Or, more productively, you might wish to read some good posts by people with more to say than me, or at least more time to say it:

• Bravery and Pol Corr - A Cloud in Trousers relays Shuggie's attack on Gary Younge
• No excuse needed but it helps - A General Theory of Rubbish takes on the Kamminator (read the Kamm peice too - attacking Tony Blair's fave book by the Trotskyesque Isaac Deutscher)
• Hostages in Iraq - ModernityBlog tells it like it is
• And a final word on the Oscars - a great piece at The Passing Parade on George Clooney and Hollywood liberalism

p.s. The vitriol in the title is in these four posts, not in mine.