Anthropology by Savage Minds – A Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone
Marshall Sahlins on Anthropologists in Iraq – “Open Letter to the NYT” at Savage Minds.
You decide – read the letter and all the self-righteous comments that follow. Seems these guys and gals believe anthropology as a social science exists for anthropologists’ feel-good, feed at the public trough sake. Unbelievable, to say the least…
The Good, The Bad, and The Replace Media with Concerned Anthropologists

I actually see quite a bit of back and forth in the comments as to the proper role of anthropology. The comments here are quite tame compared to the general tone of the “Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual,” for which I believe Sahlins wrote the obnoxious foreword.