Reaction to the blogs: ROTC, FEMA, and no-nothing Newt

Here are a few great posts for your reading pleasure:

At centrist Midtopia, former ROTC member Sean Aqui examines the issue of the military on college campuses in light of Monday's Solomon Amendment ruling. Aqui: "If military culture grows too separated from civilian culture we risk a 'Prussification' of the military: turning it into an insular society led by elites that have little in common with the people whom they ostensibly serve. That would be a disaster on many levels. The military must be given access to college students both to maintain our physical security and to save the military from itself." It's a solid argument.

At State of the Day, Creature apologizes to Michael Brown. Sort of. (See also Joe Gandelman's apology at The Moderate Voice, with which I agreed completely.)

Speaking of Joe G., he has a round-up of reaction to Jon Stewart's Oscar-host performance here.

At Iddybud, Jude reports that Bush has already pulled the rug out from under the Great Lakes restoration plan. Like Jude, I live near one of the Great Lakes. This isn't good.

The Happy Feminist says we shouldn't take sleep for granted. Well, I love sleeping. It's one of my favourite things to do. But when you have a regular job and a political blog, it becomes something of "a dispensable luxury". Indeed, I'm quite exhausted right now... yet I go on...

The (liberal) Girl Next Door, a regular commenter here at The Reaction, shows how "the Bush administration is slowly yet steadily selling off our country" (well, not my country, but we have our own problems...). Check out the foreign ownership numbers.

At Battlepanda, Angelica writes about the life and death of Baby Chanou.

The Armchair Generalist notes that would-be 2008 contender Newt Gingrich has endorsed "Rumsfeld's transformation philosophy" at the Pentagon: "Gingrich seems rather to want to score some political points here as not only a defense expert but a 'yes-man' to Bush's constituency -- all 34 percent of them who are still blindly loyal to the man." Clearly, Newt knoweth not whereof he speaketh. But what else is new?

At NewsHog, Cernig blasts the neocons: "The neocons, most of them, must be awake all night every night trying to salvage their reputations while making sure as few people as possible realise how badly they were wrong in the first place."

At South by Southwest, Carol looks at the political landscape of the Lone Star State. Down with DeLay is all I can say!

And at The Dark Wraith Forums... well, just check it out. As a non-economist, I find it all quite fascinating.

Read them all. I'll do another R2B soon. (E-mail me or comment here with any suggestions or recommendations.)

(My last R2B is here.)

And now, to sleep...