• Mama Bear has me smacking my forehead and wondering “Why didn’t I think of that?”  Update – She has pictures of the finished product too!
• Bob Owens at Pajamas Media has a great rundown on an Appleseed event.  I need to get Girlie Bear and myself signed up for one of those.
• Roberta X gets my Irish up about the lack of good choices in presidential politics since about 1984.
• Peter owes me big time for all the hot coffee I snorted out through my nasal passages while reading his latest anecdote.
• NavyOne brings us a story about an American who gave his life so that an Afghan child could live.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:  Where do we get such men?

Updates for posts I stumbled across after I hit “Publish”

• Whitecoat brings us a story that has some of the best visual pictures I’ve had in a long time.
•  Badass of the Week has a profile of someone I could see using as a model for my life. (Language Warning)