Sam Crane points to an article in the Washington Post about childcare in France and a TPM post on the state of childcare in the U.S.

I’m with James Wolcott on this one: “But it was a satisfying season overall, with Laura, in her pride, composure, classiness, and tough candor, leaving the most original, forceful impression.”

I’m spending a fair amount of time reading the political blogs today, because Iraq is such a freakin’ mess that even Bush is comparing it to Vietnam. Ugh. I’m not reading any post that talks about why this war was a bad idea and that the blogger knew it all along. Yeah, I wasn’t in favor of this war either, but now we’re here, and we have to figure out a way to get out with condemning villages of Iraqis to firing squads when we walk out the door. How do we leave without making life worse for the Iraqi people? Some like McCain are arguing for more troops. Others are debating reducing our goals and merely securing portions of the country. I don’t know. I don’t have a military background, so I’m open minded about the different solutions and am surfing around those blogs today.

(more later)