quick links

I'm going to try getting my hands dirty with Movable Type 3.0 later tonight, hence no time for a substantive post. So although this weblog (in its present form) isn't given to quick links I will tonight make an exception.

The Weekly Standard offers its postgame analysis of the diplomatic contests surrounding the D-Day commemoration and last week's G8 meeting. The assessment is that French President Chirac fared even worse than I had claimed earlier. Interesting, if not entirely convincing.

Claudia Rosett presents her latest brief against the multinational organization that holds the lifetime achievement award for World's Most Corrupt.

(I've been remiss in discussing the UN's mounting scandals here; go to Friends of Saddam for a blog devoted to detailing the gigantic fraud that is the Oil-for-Food Program.)

Rosett deserves a Pulitzer. As if.

EURSOC's postmortem on last week's European Union elections is invaluable. In a nutshell: pretty much anything you may have read from the mainstream European or American press is merde.

Finally, Ace gives Andrew Sullivan the overdue drubbing that Jonah Goldberg is too polite to, uh, dish.

UPDATE: Sullivan has officially jumped the shark, and is torching his own credibility with such dispatch that by Friday the only pundit who will give him the time of day will be Chris Matthews.

It's too bad. I admired Sullivan for a long time, but quit reading him about a year ago when his tone started turning, well, bitchy. And now he is beginning to resemble nothing so much as a gay Bill Clinton.

Ace has more, here and here. (Salty language alert.)