Assortment

1) Steven Hayward at No Left Turns views Obama as the reincarnation of a certain peanut farmer. Note the anecdote about one of Jimmy’s gaffetastic White House dinner invitations.

2) Much more on those inconvenient emails from the Blog Prof.

3) Were FDR’s health problems far worse than we had suspected? Barron H. Lerner discusses an interesting hypothesis that is being presented in a soon-to-be-published book, FDR’s Deadly Secret, by Steven Lomazow and Eric Fettman.

4) Ed Morrissey reviews Amy Alkon’s book, I See Rude People, and also links to her blog, where we find a fascinating email exchange between Amy and one of her detractors (talk about a soft word turning away wrath!) Here’s a recent article by Amy that deals with the kind of thing that gave rise to the book.

5) I haven’t seen the movie, 2012, but I certainly enjoyed this review by Alexander Zaitchik. I was hooked from the first sentence: “It is among the most wondrous mysteries of the ancient world: how did the Maya, a civilization that preceded Rex Reed by millennia, know about plot spoilers?”

6) Here's an idea; how about "Kick an Anti-Semite Day"? (H/T: right Bias)