Here's a very interesting piece on economic sociology by Virginia Postrel from the Boston Globe (via A&L Daily), and here's another one on "intelligent design" by Cathy Young. What's with the Globe? All the brain-dead editors must be away for August. Michael Barone slams multicultis, who seem to love only "each century but this and every country but their own" in Real Clear Politics. And here's another guy from the Guardian who's broken with the left over the excesses of the multi-culti, or as he calls them "the middle-class left." Welcome to the Club!

And as for all those dumb releases of "white doves of peace," check out this piece from Slate on what actually happens to the birds.