Blog Fog... and my last two links du jour

Okay, in semi-typical blogger fashion, it is now three o'clock in the afternoon and I am still in my pajamas. Blogging has gotten the better of me today, so I will post one more time because I bookmarked two things that are very compelling reads.

Hugo Zoom points us to fascinating piece of history: America's Forgotten Atrocity at Salon by Andrew O'Hehir -- well worth clicking through the day pass if you're not a Salon subscriber.

Nuuki at The Alarmist takes note of Adam Gopnik's review of Ian Davidson's new biography "Voltaire in Exile” (Grove) inThe New Yorker online. He also wisely suggests streaming Espace 2 from Lausanne, (click en direct) to "wonder at the abundant life still growing in the exile's garden of tolerance."

I'm neither intellectual nor particularly well-read, but these two historical references have a great deal of relevance to the boggy sociopolitical landscape we Americans find ourselves slogging through each day. Read 'em for yourselves to find out why.

I don't really have daily reads, per se, because the blogosphere is SO vast and topical events so dreadfully plentiful, but one of my resolutions is to stop by each of these blogs much more often than I have been in recent weeks.

Another resolution is to not blog in pajamas as often as I do now -- I'm not sure why, but it just seems so wrong... especially at 3:15pm.