Deep think:

If you find the blogs not very active this Memorial Day and want to read something substantial, consider a 5,600 word essay in the New York Review of Books. Covered:

• Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
  by Chalmers Johnson
• Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower
  by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Statecraft and How to Restore America's Standing in the World
  by Dennis Ross