Random links

We apparently live in a country so safe, that us pwning the Al Qaida doesn't even show up in the headlines.  I suppose that's good news.  Bush is also FINALLY trying to bring peace.  I approve.

Seems like we're getting closer to a cure for Alzheimer's.

Kerry to endorse Obama.  The whazzit union in Nevada endorsed him the other day too.

JONAH GOLBERG'S LIBERAL FASCISM is now up to #20 on Amazon despite the best efforts of the anti-Jonah lefty blogosphere. Somebody even hacked the page -- an Amazon first, I think -- and replaced the cover photo with one of Jonah with a Hitler mustache, though Amazon had taken it down by the time I heard about it. The toxic response to the book, as some reviewers are noting, kind of proves his thesis . . . .

This means that Liberal Fascism is now on by MUST BUY list.

1) Reed Essay (modified Why UChicago essay)
2) Rhodes essay (community service?)
3) Macalester (hell if I know)

I am vaguely surprised that I'm finding the Rhodes/Macalester essays a thousand times harder than the Emory/Northwestern essays.  WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO WRITE ABOUT?  (Emory got a little ramble on Dooley and how awesome he was, I wrote about an oversized pond for Northwestern.)