You need to read Cavalier’s Guardian Watchblog post about a new documentary. It should convince you to go see it.

It looks like Abdul Rahman, the famous Christian Afghan, will be freed tomorrow (although clerics are calling for him to be killed so can’t walk the streets). Wizbang! reports that Rahman is seeking asylum. The Big Picture tells why Rahman is a true hero. Instapundit finds a story that says there has been a “surge of interest in Christianity among Afghans” because of the Rahman case. For more, go read the Anchoress.

Last week, Strata-Sphere told us that the Russians have been implicated in the oil-for-food scandal. Unsurprisingly, they also gave Saddam our troop locations and anticipated movements in an unsuccessful attempt to protect him (read commentary by Captain’s Quarters). For an excellent analysis and opinion on what this means for the future, read Back(stabbed) in the USSR by Cavalier’s Guardian Watchblog.

Maggie’s Farm has a great post on the language framing in immigration debate.

The Carnival of Cordite one-year anniversary was celebrated in a big way. So big that it required two posts: Carnival of Cordite #52 (part one) (highlights from the entire year) and Carnival of Cordite #52 (part two) (the normal weekly carnival posting). Hell, it’s worth going through part one just for the pictures (but, like Playboy, there’s some interesting stuff in the wordy part too).

Speaking of Playboy, CJ has pictures proving that he was at the Playboy Mansion (although it looks like my back yard, but that’s just me).

E-nough! brings us the impossible: actual video of actual French counter-protesters actually yelling, “We want to work!”

I have more to catch up on, but it’s after midnight and I swore that I would start getting to bed by 10. Doesn’t seem to be working out too well so far. And to think, I sat down three hours ago to write up my impressions of my trip this evening of going to hear a Democrat who is running for Juvenile Court Clerk (a county race). Ah well, perhaps tomorrow. Uh, I mean today.