I suppose this is what the bottom of the barrel looks like.
FURTHER: on This Week this morning, Michael J Fox proved himself the exact opposite. Game. Set. Match.

UK-based Egyptian mobile phone tycoon (and presumably rather wealthy) Mo Ibrahim has one of the better development ideas ever. He is going to give $5 million to African heads of state who leave office democratically and act that way while in power. Just to insure they don’t get any post-award-coup ideas, they will also [...]

hmm, that felt odd. But seriously, Ted Turner on the UN:
The fact is that the UN works - for the world’s poor, for peace, for progress and for human rights and justice.
And we need it to go on working if we’re going to deal with the serious and sometimes frightening challenges facing us in the [...]

…but the geologist on CBC yesterday said it was real…cool

Canada currently has a lot of problems in Afghanistan - shifting support to the Taliban, rising casualties in Kandahar, ineffective counterinsurgency strategies, bad poppy crop irradiation polices, the list goes on. But 10 ft high heat absorbing, Taliban hiding, impenetrable marijuana plants? mon dieu…things are worse, well maybe better , ok worse [...]

Takes a swing, not surprising. Also not surprising is that I am sympathetic to the past paragraph:
Of course, Woodward’s book has handed a free gift to those who cannot engage their minds on any foreign-policy question without using the word “Vietnam.” I have written all that I can on the ahistorical falsity of this [...]

I am sure that there are American and British equivalents to Warren Kinsella, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head. He was a Chrétien strategist, is in a punk band, and now has an enormously popular Canadian political blog and column in the National Post. His role [...]

When picking a fall guy, avoid someone who knows as much about my guilt as this guy…

Not sure, but I like this site nonetheless!

From a new book by veteran Paul Rieckhoff, Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier’s Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington:
At one point Kerry asked us all who we thought he should choose as his running mate. A few in the room mentioned John McCain. Rumors had circulated in the press for weeks about secret meetings [...]

What if these two things highlighted by Kevin Drum this morning are true? Does it mean anything? Should we care?
1. That Al Queda wants to prolong the American campaign in Iraq for as long as possible. As revealed in a letter captured in the Abu Musab Zarqawi raid, and translated by the [...]

Via Ackerman at the Plank, this gem from Woodward’s book:
Rumsfeld: “We never–none of us ever believed that [Iraq] had nuclear weapons. The only real worry that we had was chemical.”
Biting my tongue for a moment, and putting aside the rhetorical use of the nuclear threat, I have always thought that the conflation [...]