Around the Blogroll and Elsewhere: Mandatory Reading edition

I pity the fool who doesn't read these blogs today:

Howie Klein wonders why, when a business goes south, no one asks the people who made the bad business decisions to sacrifice anything; that it all falls on the workers who had zero say in the matter.

The only thing that ever makes me miss movie reviewing is when ModFab does his annual orgy of Oscar®-bait movies. He's already seen Doubt, Revolutionary Road, Defiance, and The Wrestler. Perhaps this is how, when we get together for our annual holiday movie afternoon (which is about all I can spare these days), we end up at movies like Happy Feet and Enchanted.

Matt Taibbi eviscerates Mavericky McMaverick. (No, not the one in the $180,000 wardrobe with the $110,000 makeup and hair styling.)

Tim F. has had quite enough of "You Must Hate Israel" trolls.

Here's a goody from the "Holy shit!" file: Pam Spaulding has unearthed the covenant from George 'n' Laura's new community in Dallas -- the one where black people were banned until 2000; unless they were domestic servants.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's pissed off that Arianna Huffington can pass herself as some kind of maven on blogging, when there are thousands of us who were toiling away at this before Huffington Post was a gleam in her eye. I'm even gladder that the one who chose to write about it is Driftglass.

Just because Sarah Palin is back in Alaska after extending her fifteen minutes helping that granddaughter-groping perv Saxby Chambliss back to the Senate, doesn't mean we don't still need Mudflats to keep us informed of what the would be Brat-in-Chief is up to.

Blue Girl deserves our support for daring to contradict the Mighty Big Blue Smurf. She also happens to be right.

And last, but by no means least, Skippy points out why conservative males insist in calling smarter men "elitist" as if it's a bad thing.