Some of you may have noticed those thingeys on the left side of the blog. Those are called "links", and they enable visitors to my evil lair to go to other web sites, blogs, and internet arcana that I find useful or interesting. Not all the sites are created equal; most people already have ESPN and The Onion bookmarked, and if you are into blogs, you certainly don't need me to tell you how to get to Andrewsullivan.com, Instapundit or Kausfiles. But there are some less well-known sites that I recommend, in particular TalkingPoints (where I found this very touching tribute to an East Coast politician/felon), MaxSpeak, and Eschaton. Check out those sites, and thank me later.