As of today, every Tuesday and Thursday, I will use my bully pulpit as TPM intern to promote some of the outstanding reader blogs that are posted here each week. I hope you'll take the time to check them out, especially since a major reason for building the controversial new TPM site was that, hopefully, it would open the door to a much more robust community experience. So, these twice-weekly posts will help to foreground some of our readers' writing and generate even more discussion at our already thriving Cafe. Here goes. . .

The Grand Panjandrum explains the burgeoning Super-Delegate Transparency Project. Granted, the call for greater super-delegate accountability has largely become the cause of the Obama campaign. Frankly, though, no matter whom you support, some extra clarity in this especially murky domain of party politics can't be bad for democracy.

Billy Glad offers a critical look at Obama's proposal for the First US-Iran Summit, an idea that, if Sen. Obama does win the nomination, should certainly be at the forefront of many coming discussions.

As we approach the third anniversary of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination, Brian Woodson reminds us that in the generally turbulent Middle East, Lebanon remains a particularly volatile question, and one that deserves to be taken seriously in its own right.

It's primary time, and that means a deluge of questions, conundrums, koans, and queries that no one is truly prepared to answer. But Ted Underwood poses, and answers, one that is perhaps somewhat more compelling than what we're used to, namely, Why hasn't this primary season sucked?

In the midst of a heated campaigning season, in which the media as much as the campaigns has been criticized for playing fast and loose with language, Christopher Williams urges caution, lest we become like those we chide.

Finally, in the interest of giving both sides of the story, here are today's requisite pro-Clinton and pro-Obama pieces. While Aaron Cunningham racks up the thoroughness points, Greg Palmer makes up some ground by referring to the infamous Lyle Lanley-monorail fiasco of 1993.