Read Stuff, You Should

So many good choices, but Happy Birthday to Alan Rickman, 67.

Also, good stuff:

1. Friends of Hamas are everywhere -- Tim Murphy reports. As does Adam Serwer.

2. Apparently the way the US does security clearances is a few decades behind the times. No surprise. John Hamre proposes an update.

3. Matt Yglesias on BipartisanThink.

4. Since I linked to the original: CAP's Neera Tanden responds to TNR on think tanks.

5. And Andrew Gelman cites Bill James correctly.