patriotism vs nationalism

* simbaud points to A Tiny Revolution where Jonathon notes that he had never heard of the most humiliating point in Turkish history - the newly famous 'bag incident' from The Valley of the Wolves. good point. I hadn't heard of it either. as Jonathon says:

"In other words, it's possible for America to do things to other countries that they consider "the most humiliating moment" in their history...and even anti-American America-haters like myself can't be bothered simply to know it happened."

( i should visit ATR more often - Jonathon was sufficiently kind to say this about me a while back)

* maha has a nice riff on patriotism vs nationalism - she figgers the difference is one of responsibility.

* there was great new line from Fox News today - the reason the media focusing on cheney shooting someone was because it was a slow news week. d'oh. shooting-gate buried how many serious stories this past week? the katrina hearings? snoopgate hearings? abu ghraib photos? patriot act? sheesh.

* Tim over at Scott's place: "Of course, American readers, shouldn’t feel too bad. Things could be worse. You could be in Australia. Although there is some dispute about the methodology used in the numbers, it seems the odds of being snooped down under are between 3 times and 20 times the US per capita rate, excluding illegal NSA-gate taps of course." (link)

* mary matalin is hacktacular