Sunday Linkblast - July 22

• America's next disastrous military adventure
  Eric Margolis makes the case against going into Pakistan.
  
  
• George Washington: Soft on Terrorism
  Matt has a post comparing the current GOP field and the founding fathers.
  
  
• The weekly American editorial cartoons
  From Bob Geiger.
  
  
• Tammy Faye dies at 65
  No snark. No cheesy makeup jokes. She made a probably futile, but undeniably good-hearted effort to reconcile the evangelical Christian and gay communities and she died with class and dignity.
  
  
• Calgary paramedics prepare for a strike that the provincial government will probably block
  Think about how unhappy people who became EMTs to help the rest of us have to be to vote 99% in favor of strike action. The province starves municipalities of funding and then think they can simply forbid away the inevitable backlashes.
  
  
• We're all class warriors now
  All over the industrialized world anger against the rich and the globalization that benefits them at our expense is growing by leaps and bounds. Financial elites are baffled and increasingly frightened. Media elites try hard to ignore it.
  
  
• Lessons for Americans to learn from Iraq
  The standout: 'When the rest of the world thinks you're crazy, it's worth entertaining the possibility that they might be right.' I'd add this one from The Tyee: War is a failed paradigm that just doesn't work anymore.
  
  
• The Lonely Republican
  Profile of anti-Iraq war old school Libertarian candidate for President, Ron Paul.
  
  
• Scarily advanced bionic hand
  Amputees can use it to type, play piano, peel a banana... welcome to the future.
  
  
• Sunday Morning Hangover from Warren Ellis
  I'm halfway through his brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, grotesque and magical new novel Crooked Little Vein. Go buy it and read it - if you have a strong stomach and a sense of humor. If you don't, what are you doing here?