I have a small item on Ann Coulter and Elizabeth Edwards up over at The Gaurdian‘s “Comment is free” site, the writing of which made me wish once again that there were any kind of career prospects in writing epigrams.

George Packer‘s Interesting Times.

The relaunched Reihan Salam-led group blog The American Scene.

Dana Goldstein‘s eponymous new blog.

Ed Kilgore at the relaunched Democratic Strategist.

iPhone sales start today. I’m sticking with my BlackBerry for now. There’s no way the iPhone camera function could compete with what Canon has spent millions of dollars perfecting; I never listen to my iPod anyway; and the last thing I need is another technology to subsume my few remaining independent waking moments into the hive mind of the internet.

A new New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll finds that young Americans 17-29 are more liberal, more socially tolerant, and more pro-war than their elders. This is something that I feel has not been adequately explored as an explanation for liberal hawkery in the run-up to the Iraq war. Contrary to sterotypes about anti-war youth, young people in general — and especially young men — have tended to be more gung-ho for military interventions and more optimistic about their outcomes in surveys dating back to the Korean War. Most liberal publications are staffed by young men, with large numbers of them in their 20s, somewhat fewer in their 30s, and one or two in their 40s or 50s. The blogosphere, many of whose leading anti-war voices backed the invasion of Iraq, has a similar demographic profile. I don’t think it was an accident that it was mainly liberal Baby Boomers who sounded the warning against the invasion of Iraq, while their Gen X and Gen Y underlings wrongly dismissed them as old fogies trying to relive their salad days. I recall watching the masculine pride and camraderie that attended being a liberal for the war — the sense of participating in great power, mastery, and the ability to direct the world — and feel that that social and psychological benefit has been markedly undervalued as an explanation for what led all these bright young men astray.

Now this sounds interesting.

I don’t know why exactly I find this funny, since I was already a member of that group, but I do:

Howard Kurtz joined the group “Trust me. I’m a journalist.”

There’s been a real flood of journos signing up on Facebook of late and it’s amusing to watch all the different groups that have developed, and the way some of the older reporters are plugging themselves into the system. Maybe it’s that what’s ironic and self-mocking from a 23-year-old editorial assistant looks a little different when it comes from a nationally renowned media figure.