Blog break

Thanks for stopping by. Grits for Breakfast is on a two-week hiatus. My big plan is to recoup somewhere in the mountains where thermometers never issue repugnant readings like 105 degrees fahrenheit. In the meantime, check out all the good folks linked to the right, and also these recent Grits posts:

Political campaign strategy:

• Sun Tzu and Opposition Research Strategy, Parts One, Two, Three, Four, Five, and Six.
• Blogs, Jazz and Message Development
• Blogs' Role in Political Campaigns
• Mark Strama on web campaigning
  
• RELATED: Tipping crowds on the Internet (Texas Observer, 10/8/04)
  

Surveillance cameras:

• Cameras wrong response to London bombings
• Negotiating hidden cameras in the workplace
• Where can you be surveilled? Pretty much anywhere

Texas criminal justice:

• Texas prisons overflowing, now what?
• HPD crime lab shows "indifference to right and wrong"
• Assistant chief handcuffs reluctant sex partner
• Odds and ends: Drylabbing, border wars and high speed chases
• Children with incarcerated parents
• Failure to treat dyslexia increases crime
• Judge: Perry probation veto risks public safety
  
• Lege avoided $1 billion in new prisons

Drug war

• DEA snitch data lost
• West Texas drug task force may close
• Illegal drugs 14% of world Ag exports
• Cops profit from traffic stops
• La Mordida in Fort Bend County