"I gather the dog is supposed to stand in for Nanking."

Too many things that ought to get blogged about, but I'll have to settle for these:

Lileks boots Hollywood's PC obsession with making sure you understand and sympathize with the bad guys--in this case, Imperial Japan.

Forty years from now, a grizzled Ben Affleck will be clucking his tongue over the jingoism of John Rambo and how simplistic it all was back then, and filming the story of the Burmese junta that shows their true deep conflicted honorable humanity and how they just had no choice but to shoot those meddling monks.

Speaking of cracking on the Burmese, China has its own Rupert Murdoch--I mean, Jimmy Lai, someone who actually acts like Rupert Murdoch. Rupert Murdoch himself acts like Ted Turner over there.

...long a combative agitator for press and political freedoms in China, [Lai] has remade Hong Kong's media landscape by pairing two unlikely subjects -- democracy and sex. His publications frequently bait Beijing and have stoked anti-government rallies in Hong Kong, in political reports often interspersed with racy photos or consumer reviews of local strip clubs and saunas.

Finally, here's an outstanding long essay by Christopher Taylor about the nature of intelligence--not the spy kind, the thinky kind--and how it's circumscribed by politics and tyranny. Great read. Print it out and read it on the subway or whatever it is you do where you can sit and read something for a while. JYB Tailwag for that goes to Vanderleun, whose Grace in Asheville needs reading too.

Oh, and I already linked my Founding Fathers on immigration and citizenship piece at Michellemalkin.com, and it would be embarrassing to see my own trackbacks piling up on my own post there. But I'm shameless, when it comes to bloggin' you, so here we go again. And here's another one I recommend about the Law of the Sea Treaty and why it sucks how it interferes with the Proliferation Security Initiative and why you should care about that if you don't like being blown up.