From Washington DC of course.

I thought of taking a plunge into the deep end of the pool for this post, but as J.A. Bartlett admonished last week, the world will be skating on the thin ice of 2008. So from the shallow end of the pond, some wishful thinking for next year about some things I care about, in chronological […]

Do you realize that Chelsea Clinton will be 36 years old in 2016, clearing a certain Constitutional requirement? Just saying.
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The most important column you’ll read today.
The difference between Bhutto and Bush as metaphor.
Bullshit as hagiography.
Nut-squeezers coerce nut-squeezees to hire Irving Kristol’s son to “balance” leftist propagandist Paul Krugman on NYT op-ed page. O, outrage! Take […]

In his latest New York Times editorial Paul Krugman writes,
[The USA has] crossed an important watershed: we now import more manufactured goods from the third world than from other advanced economies. That is, a majority of our industrial trade is now with countries that are much poorer than we are and that pay their […]

Mr. Bush, apparently without warning, has put out the word that he will veto the defense bill that is on his desk. This is an omnibus bill that includes the budget and raises for His Troops. This is the very same bill that passed the senate 90 - 3. Yes, I said […]

Hydrogen, that is. If we’re looking for energy independence, element number one could be our number one choice.
It was a couple of years ago that reading Fueling the Future taught me to see hydrogen as a battery instead of a fuel. In contrast to fossil hydrocarbons whose supply is limited and whose burning a […]

Well, the price of oil is shooting up again, just after Christmas. I made a guess somewhere on the net, I think it was here somewhere on BotB, that manipulations would be made to ensure that the price did not clear $100 a barrel before Christmas. Can’t have all those shoppers feeling depressed, […]

Describing the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the spokesman for her party said, “She has been martyred.” Commenting on Salon.Com, Sadip Roy concludes his remarks with the following,
In Pakistan, the death of Benazir could become the galvanizing force for a mass engagement in the political process. Or it could unleash the kind of revenge-seeking bloodbath […]

Boy, Bush and Cheney really missed their chance. They should have bombed Iran yesterday. With the news channels focused on the guy in San Francisco who got eaten by a tiger at the zoo, they could have flattened Tehran and nobody would have noticed.
Of course, they could still do it today. The news channels are […]

The US government is presently backtracking over Iran. In fact, watching the US administration shift their position reminds of watching several people playing a game of “twister”.
OK, so they are saying that the Iranians have toned down their support for attacks inside Iraq.
First of all, there are two main Shitte factions in Iraq.
Number one, […]