Tuesday Morning Link Orgy

* If you thought the Wisconsin state legislature was going to have a helluva time correcting the $5+ billion dollar budget deficit, well, they'll get to it as soon as they figure out where everyone's offices are going to be

* David Kilcullen, who's theory of counterinsurgency could be described as "battlefield (a-hem) community organizing" is a badass: "Counterinsurgency is armed social work."

* Russians, feeling the economic pinch, stop building their enormous towers and -- most distressing of all -- are cutting down on their vodka consumption

* Two pretentious French literary types lash back at critics and the results are awesome:

* Solving the (institutionalized) Somali piracy problem with an iron fist

* The 101 Dumbest Business Moves of 2008