A reader reacts to Escapement The United Mistakes of America — On our license to err. Ça planait pas dans sa voix — This piece about a Belgian lawsuit over the original recording of Plastic Bertrand's "Ça Plane Pour Moi" is both hilarious and bizarre. Read the comments, too. Sunset, Shadowrise — A fascinating image from central Australia. Get Ready for Steerable Photon Guns — "Steerable Photon Guns" would be a great name for a rock band. New Planets Highlight Orbital Resonance — From the department of learning something new every day. Gingrich to give speech drawing on 'lessons' from anti-war secular socialists Orwell and Camus. — The synopsis of the event at the AEI website notes that Gingrich will draw "on the lessons of Camus and Orwell" to "describe the dangers of a wartime government that uses language and misleading labels to obscure reality" The man behind the GOPAC memo is going to talk about this? Irony is not only dead; it's been dismembered, burned, and its ashes scattered over the RNC offices. Santorum’s Classless Society — More bizarre rhetoric from the Right. Besides which, isn't that a Marxist phrase? ?otD: Facial hair or clean shaven? 7/29/2010 Writing time yesterday: 1 hour, 45 minutes (revisions, WRPA) Body movement: 50 minute suburban walk Hours slept: 8.0 (solid) This morning's weigh-in: n/a Yesterday's chemo stress index: 4/10 (fatigue, peripheral neuropathy) Currently (re)reading: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert