The philosophy papers blog is up, but with the holidays there’s not much to report.

Arts & Letters Daily is a useful resource, but it is getting rather tiring how willing they are to apologise for conservatives. Compare the following tag

The looting of the Baghdad Museum was not as complete as first reported. Precious art had been hidden away for fear of bombing…

with this quote from one of the articles that follows the tag

Before the war, Iraq’s antiquities’ authorities gathered artifacts from around the country and moved them to Baghdad’s museum, assuming it would not be bombed, Gibson said.

To be fair, the article does also say that some antique jewelry had been moved to the vaults of the national bank before the war, so not everything that one might have thought was lost was indeed lost. But this looks to me like at best a good news/bad news story, and at worst a story where the bad news outweighs the good. To headline the good news in this context is, well, a little misleading.