AUSTIN BAY has thoughts on the Canadian elections, and the Canadian military.

CARNIVAL-O-RAMA: The Carnival of the Capitalists and the Blawg Review are up. Also the Tangled Bank, the Carnival of Cars, and Haveil Havalim. Want more carnivals? They’re all right here, at BlogCarnival.com.

And, with today’s elections in Canada, you’ll want to check out the Canadian Red Ensign Standard carnival.

UPDATE: Plus, the Carnival of the Cats!

HOWARD KURTZ offers some advance notice for An Army of Davids.

He also mentions Kos’s new book (coauthored with Jerome Armstrong) and this passage sounds like something I could agree with:

Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, who speaks regularly with Democratic leaders, will soon publish “Crashing the Gate,” his indictment of “a progressive movement that is failing to keep up with the times,” including “issue groups that don’t realize it’s no longer 1975 or even 1995” and “an incestuous relationship between the party committees and consultants that serve themselves more than our candidates.”

I don’t think I’d like a Democratic party remade in Kos’s image, but admitting you have a problem is the first step to dealing with it. And here’s more evidence that reality can transcend partisanship at times:

I just finished reading the type script of Glenn Reynolds’ “An Army of Davids: How Markets & Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths.” We’re supposed to be on opposite sides of the political spectrum, but I agreed with so much in the book, especially about the power that blogging and the new technology have given to the individual to take on big media, big government and the status quo.

Indeed.

BRAD RUBENSTEIN is blogging from Digital Life Day in Munich. Excerpt:

One of my favorite pull quotes – Gabe McIntyre, of xolo.tv. “Blogs are OK, but there is so much text, and I hate to read…” He then launched his promo-reel of video blogs. I suspect a quarter of the audience had their cell phones out, taking pictures which will probably appear on flickr before you know it. Preaching (almost literally) to the converted. . . .

I’m struck by the large number of projects going on in areas I am interested in, which I feel like I’m falling upon just by chance. Almost every web site that people are talking to me about is new to me. It’s not just information overload in general, even in the narrow niche where I want to know what’s going on, it’s too much to keep track of. The internet is too big, that’s the problem.

Indeed.

MORE ON GENDER AND EDUCATION:

First lady Laura Bush and a growing number of physicians, educators and psychologists say Americans need to wake up and see that boys lag far behind girls in school, and then demand that something be done.

Mrs. Bush, mother of two grown daughters, speaks at conferences and in interviews about the declining status of boys in today’s learning environment. She has charged that boys are being overlooked.

“I think we need to pay more attention to boys. I think we’ve paid a lot of attention to girls for the last 30 years … but we have actually neglected boys,” Mrs. Bush told Parade magazine early last year.

William Pollack, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, agrees.

(Via PoliPundit). Related thoughts on higher education, here.

UPDATE: Are boys just “defective girls?”

IF YOU WERE OFF, you know, having a life or something over the weekend, you may have missed our podcast interview with Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan regarding Iranian nukes and related matters. And note the “Podcasts” tab in the Nav bar at the top, which will take you to a podcast archive.

And reader Stephen Lalley writes with something that’s news to me: “I have TiVo and they just started a new feature where you can listen to Podcasts. I input your RSS feed and there was the list of casts. Pretty cool!” Sure enough, he’s right. Cool, indeed.

I’M NOT GOING TO CALL the Canadian elections until they’re over, but Michelle Malkin has a roundup.