Starting a new feature to highlight items that I'm constantly e-mailing to my friends and posting on my facebook. These little items might not merit a whole post, but they are worth reading. Like your daily bread, but healthier and moar sustainable!

• Former Zionist Tony Judt writes about settlements and the fantasy of their dismantling in The Times.
• Kristof manages to temporarily stanch the bleeding constantly going on around his heart area and does a decent write-up of Food, Inc. and other agriculture issues. Comments are mostly what one would expect, although one commenter highlights a nice slideshow called "What the World Eats" from the book Hungry Planet. I left my standard comment: why does the system-wide problem of agribusiness lobbying and industrial agriculture merit the "solution" of "eating consciously"? The day Kristof suggests that actual political organization is necessary is the day I stop calling him a bleeding heart liberal.
• Everyone was acting all out of character this weekend! Gawker has a very nice summary of huge new media ventures' (a la HuffPo) policies of not paying their writers. Here's my comment under the fabulous Gawker-assigned username EarlPolo. I kind of like it actually.
• Yglesias notes a new NYT poll that shows support for a public health option above 70% overall and around 50% for Republicans. I'll keep posting new poll results until I can buy a nice public health insurance policy.