Macaroni sent me a link to Holly Mathis Interiors. Pretty. She also does home and garden posts over Pioneer Woman.

Jeremy pointed me to a new book of essays by parents of special needs kids, My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities.  Listen to the audio here. I'm glad that this book is out there, but I probably won't read it. I'm done with sad books about parenting disabled kids. As much I hate Sarah Palin, I really do love the pictures of her hoisting Trig around like a sack of potatoes at her speeches.

Charli Carpenter is annoyed at Ke$ha videoes.

Henry Farrell recommends Princeton Readings in American Politics. The Table of Contents looks good (but maybe a bit dry). I used the Princeton Readings in Political Theory many times.