I SPENT THE AFTERNOON buying a new (environmentally friendly!) lawn mower and mowing my lawn. Then I read a book and had a nice dinner. I’m taking the rest of the evening off in an effort to stay sane amid all the war hysteria. I’m also taking a moment to think of our troops, who don’t have that luxury.

I’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, check out the Command Post, which should be here now (at least, the new URL of www.command-post.org is working for me; if it doesn’t work for you try this one instead), and the many fine blogs linked below. Oh, and don’t miss this piece by Howard Kurtz on weblogs and war.

And if you want to help out some service people, Operation Uplink lets you donate calling cards so that they can stay in touch with the folks at home.

See you tomorrow.