As always, I'm grateful for the traffic to our site; we're going to bust the meager Scholars budget for bandwidth, but our policy is to do this as a labor for love. (Those ads over to your right would make our budget in a normal month, but this month is anything but.) Someone gave me $20 for the site, and I am sending it forward with a match from me to our Northern Alliance entry in the Spirit of America Friends of Iraq challenge. The challenge runs through the 15th of the month, and we're competing against other alliances and individual bloggers. Little Green Footballs is still ahead of us, and we want to overtake someone with such a silly name. So give early and often (like a Donetsk voter) by clicking this icon (also appears on sidebar):