Reading List

Reading list:

• Juan Cole on Gaza. Especially on this issue he tends to go a step further than I would, but his argument that the Gazans are trapped in a form of slavery is interesting. Also, for the record my guess is that this whole thing ends either the week before or after February 10 (Israeli electons) based on how Livni thinks the Reservists currently in Gaza will break.



• Andrew Sullivan's Dissent of the Day and response. I doubly agree with his sentiment: "Cry me a river. You can only shame people if they feel ashamed." The only thing I would add is the irony that the hypothical events described by the Dissenter about poor folks who gave money to the Prop 8 campaign sounds a lot like the order of events for many gay men and women who have been outted. I wonder how many time he has been involved in one of those whisper campaigns?



• Glenda Hyatt is fast becoming one of my favorite bloggers (completely absent her great story) and writes about the creation of Disability Savings Accounts in Canada. One of the great shams in America (and until now Canada) is that disabled people who need any government assistance live in constant fear that the will cross one of the million thresholds that will cause the government to cut them off and them to be forced to spend three years fighting to get them back.