I've been proven via Bear's computer analysis to be a bit of a links tease. Fortunately, in the last few days there have been several excellent posts that are worth your time:

* Justin Adams at Curmudgeonry gives James Taranto of WSJ's "Best of the Web" a well-deserved slap for insinuating that Lutherans who disciplined a pastor for associating with godless heathen at a September 11th memorial service are equivalent to violent Muslims.

* Susanna Cornett slices and dices a similarly bigoted comment on a leftie's blog.

* Bill Quick, the Daily Pundit, ferrets out the weasel words in a reporter's description of the pilot who dropped the big smack on Hiroshima.

* Dodd Harris celebrates a year of caption contests (be sure and enter -- there's a prize involved).

* Lawrence Haws dispels a silly notion that talk of arming only pilots on planes is evidence of misogyny and homophobia (his links are broken -- it's the second post for July 10th).

* The Timekeeper explains why "Harkengate" is not like Clinton's scandals.

* Jeff Goldstein defends his honor against a malicious calumny.

* Dave Trowbridge provides a link to villainsupply.com, "your best online source for everything EVIL."

* And last but certainly not least, The View From the Core has one of my missives in their Guest Column slot this week.