Stephen Walt wonders, "where have all the political songs gone?" With some notable exceptions, there have been no pop songs about politics or the War in Iraq. He speculates that the lack of a draft explains why there are no political tunes.

Tim Burke has a lengthy and interesting post on the problems with print journalism and its relationship with new media. Liked this idea:

I think with some kind of philanthropic or foundation funding–what we
maybe need is an umbrella organization that produces pool reportage
with heavy foundation support, an independent endowment, etc., from
which daily news outlets buy their content, which provides a revenue
stream back to the organization that produces the reportage. Rather
than an editorial staff who prunes the reportage produced to a single
voice or standard, the goal would be to support multiple reporters
working on the same issues whose filed stories could be
mixed-and-matched by a news portal or end publication–so we might get a
front page of a daily newspaper that would have three bylines on the
Obama stimulus package, each the product of a different reporter’s
investigative work, if the stories were interesting or well-developed
enough.

The problem with Republicans in Washington is that they are stuck back in the Reagan years, says David Brook.

Cougar Barbie.