+ Tom Engelhardt linked Is Obama's Afghanistan Strategy Ripping Off America? in a piece on Atlantic Free Press that got picked up by a lot of liberal news sites. The short version: America is in decline and China will kick our butts.

+ HG's WORLD linked The Naughties Were Plenty Nice.
+ So did zenpundit.

+ The Future of Integral recommended PNM, BFA, GP, the NDU on CSPAN video and the Middlebury Brief.

+ conneally tweeted the TED video
+ So did diffeomacx.
+ Guesswork Theory linked it.
+ So did Kevin K.

+ artlung tweeted How a childish nation reacts in times of stress.
+ 50kft_K tweeted Stunningly excellent piece of analysis on Iran sanctions.
+ A Postmodern Orthodoxy wrote a lot about PNM.
+ Enter Stage Right listed GP as one of their best books of 2009.
+ Judah Grunstein referred to Tom re: China.
+ Live active cultures linked Imagine that: home-grown mass murders in America!