Some Are Calling it The French Revolution
The continuing riots and unrest in Paris and elsewhere in France capture some of the mindshare among bloggers today, with reactions ranging from Mary Steyn's "Wake Up, Europe, You've Got a War on Your Hands" column in the Chicago Sun-Times (today's fourth most-shared news story) to blogger Don Surber's description of the upheaval as "L' Intifada." T. Longren's observation is equally pointed: "To hell in a handbasket." The riots, in fact, have garnered more blogger attention than the anti-Bush protests being staged at a world summit in Argentina.
How intelligent was the intelligence?
Attention is also zeroing in on an issue that was at the heart of the Watergate scandal, captured in that famous question: What did you know and when did you know it? Only this time it's about pre-war intelligence that led to the war in Iraq, captured in today's top links from the New York Times. Did senior officials know that "Mr. Libi," one of the foreign sources for some of the intelligence and today's third burstiest person, and his "intelligence" were both dubious?
Death by Caffeine
Yes, you heard that right, and before anyone gets bummed by news of riots and questionable due diligence at the highest levels of government, we turn today to the No. 7 top link, called Death By Caffeine, in which you choose your favorite caffeine-laced beverage to find out how many it would take to do you in. Says one Mountain Dew fan: "what a way to go..."
Posted by Sue MacDonald at November 7, 2005 08:39 AM
