by Matt Barr

Watcher's Council results March 3

Plenty of great posts nominated March 1. Winners announced Friday:

In the Council category, Done With Mirrors remembered George Washington on the great man's birthday.

To me, Washington is American history's grand exemplar of the virtue of civic duty. Say "actor-president" and people think Reagan, but Washington played a role so thoroughly, and so perfectly, that people still think he was that regal, noble Roman hero. When you read the accounts of him written by his intimate circle during the Revolution, you see the American man -- vain, hard-driving, hard-cussing, clever in a farmer's ways. And you appreciate what he did to get America launched on an even keel: passing up a life he could have spent happily among his horses, transforming himself into a living virtue as a gift to the new nation.

Runner up was the scathing The Breach at New Sisyphus and The Information War at ShrinkWrapped, tied.

Michael J. Totten's fabulous tour of The Beginning of the Universe won the non-Council category.

LALISH, IRAQ – In Northern Iraq there is a place called Lalish where the Yezidis say the universe was born. I drove south from Dohok on snowy roads through an empty land, seemingly to the ends of the earth, and found it nestled among cold hills.

You need to read the whole thing, and see the wonderful pictures. Hit his tip jar while you're there. I'm just a monkey at a keyboard, Totten is doing stuff.

Sigmund, Carl & Alfred addressed the Grads of Stupid University on Iraq to place in the non-Council category.

Full voting results and plenty of worthy links here.

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