Before the 9/11 attacks, James Lileks was just a lightweight humor columnist for a Minneapolis daily. Before the Iraq war, he was best known nationally for his quirky retro web site cataloguing the myriad horrors of food, pop culture, and interior design that the America of his youth was forced to endure. But these days, Lileks is making a name for himself as a “war blogger,” one of an increasing number of angry right-wing freelancers giving over their personal bandwidth to cheering American forces and brutally shredding anyone who dares oppose the Bush administration’s policies. Bloggers can write what they like, of course, but Dennis Perrin is concerned that Lileks and other war bloggers like him seem to consider truth secondary to bluster, and reasoned analysis inferior to blind machismo.