Link round-up Friday, 24 August 2012 13:45:22 CDT David-Braverman Travel, Politics (0) Three projects and a head cold have robbed me of time and energy this week. I've only got a few minutes this afternoon to list some of the more interesting things I've read in the past day: Andrew Sullivan had two back-to-back posts this morning looking at Obama's strategy at the Democratic Convention and admiring him as a Tory leader for America. Ta-Nahesi Coates dug into Obama's role as a post-racial figure and how he stumbled over Trayvon Martin. Jared Bernstein wrote last week on whether Americans really do want smaller government, as did former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm. The Economist summarized how airlines screwed themselves by trying to screw travel agents. (Being the Economist, they put it more politely.) OK, back to the mines...