what's in the world

I don't know how to post links to good blogs, or I'd have a sidebar running full of them. Right now, I want to tell everybody to read this particular blog called Baghdad Burning -- I may have mentioned it on this site before, can't remember, but it's a great blog. The first year or so of it is being turned into a book. Written by a young woman in Baghdad who talks about her own family's day to day life there, what's going on, what's *really* going on. Fascinating, heartsickening, sad and amazing. Read it. It's at riverbendblog.blogspot.com