Some non-war related reading:

• Wampum on rising unemployment, and efforts to conceal it.
• The New York Times on rising pay for CEOs.
• If bombs and body parts are getting old hat, here's something new for your next nightmare: the we're fucked, we're doom-ded, game-over squid.
• J. Bradford DeLong on an unexpected visitor to Tolkien's uttermost west.
• Patrick Nielsen Hayden on the sameness of airports.