* Head Heeb Jonathan is a sometimes little too liberal for his own good - he got knocked around in the comments pretty badly on the night that Hamas won the Palestinian election, when he was trying to justify why the results didn't demonstrate Palestinian support for terrorism. Nonetheless, he genuinely without peer - at least in the Jewish blogosphere (and can we please get a name for this... jblogosphere? Jblogsphere? Jogosphere? Yeah - what jogosphere?) - when he's writing about Africa. Recently, he's been focusing heavily on what's happening in the DRC. The lack of interest that this gets in the West is unconscionable - if that many European countries were involved in that many conflicts for that long, we'd be calling it a World War. Jonathan has now posted a backgrounder on Congolese history that it would behoove you to read. And just as we finish writing this, he's put up a link-filled post about instability in Somalia.

* Is there a macro out there for making "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" mashups? There's the All You Snakes Are Belong To Us, which we think may be the canonical mashup. But now Reuters-least-favorite-person-of-the-year Rusty Shackleford has the downright outstanding All Your Fakes Are Belong To Us, a little piece of justified blog triumphalism. It even incorporates the probably fake Red Cross Ambulance Incident, that ZombieTime took piece by piece apart last night.

* AK Sommer wants men to keep it in their pants. KesherTalk wants more or less the opposite. Esther at Jewlicious giggles at the word titular and links to VH1's Random Facts about Jews (according to Mel Gibson) ("Jews are to blame for all those stupid Adam Sandler songs" - probably and unfortunately true... "Jews don't enjoy rainbows" - probably not true). Esther also welcomes Shawn Green to New York, which has nothing to do with sex, but we really like Shawn Green.