links for 2007-07-29

• Boing Boing: Vaporub solves meerkat gang-wars
• Andrew Lee Butters: The Israelis have sealed the crossing in part as a response to the rockets that are regularly launched from Gaza into Israeli towns in the Negev, occasionally killing civilians, and often damaging homes. But the siege is also the key e
• Libby: I was aware the Raging 101st Primary Smear Unit was conducting a little blogsurge against TNR, but I didn't really get interested in their latest tiny tempest until I read Andrew Sullivan, and then saw that loyal White House apologist, the WaPo's o
• Ross Douthat: liberals play their cards right, this collapse could provide them with a powerful rhetorical bludgeon. Take the stem-cell debate, where the great questions are moral, not scientific--whether embryonic human life should be created and destro