Full-Moon Projects Amid Easter Stuff, and Serious Commentary on the Side

It's full-moon time of year again, which may explain some of the oddities in today's most popular blog discoveries, such as a ShimiveJournal's Cadbury Cream Egg Cake (made with chocolate eggs instead of real eggs), today's top blog post. People with way too much time on their hands...at least make us laugh. (Which reminds me, since it's Easter season and all: the folks who do research on marshmallow Peeps are still out there, even if they don't show up in blog results). So is Bill O'Reilly, now on another holiday rant.

Serious discussions
The full moon also brings out serious discussions as well, including other top-cited blog posts today from No. 2. Whiskey Bar ("Mutually Assured Dementia") about the Iraq-like build-up to Iran), No. 7. Juan Cole's Informed Comment examination of the true nuclear threat from Iran (or lack thereof), world travel-blogger Michael J. Totten's continuing trip (No. 20) through Turkey toward Iraq, and Vanity Fair's James Wolcott examines the legacy of the late Terri Schiavo.

Whose spin?
Today's most-cited link and news story comes from the Washington Post's examination of those "biological weapons labs" (today's No. 2 most-used phrase) found in 2003 in Iraq as evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Good reporting of old news, asks MahaBlog, or more mainstream media news twisting of old news, ask very differently oriented bloggers?

More voices, louder
Ret. U.S. Army Gen. John Batiste is among the day's burstiest people (No. 16) for joining a chorus of other former military officers calling for the resignation of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others at the Pentagon for their un-military-like conduct of war.

Passings...
Today's burstiest person is songster June Pointer, of the Pointer Sisters, who died Wednesday at age 52 of cancer. Some of the best sing-along-in-the-car music ever...

Easter treats
Which Easter treat are you anticipating most? Thought so.