Live from the Nuke Free Zone

This time as I was removing my pistol, which was the etiquette for such meetings, I hesitated, certainly long enough to be noticed, then let my gun drop on the sofa. I don’t know what the three Interahamwe leaders made of the gesture, but I was fighting a terrible compulsion to shoot them on the […]

Just to confirm the dreadful rumors that things are happening on this earth beyond Saddam Hussein’s capture, here’s a bit of MLP for you guys.
Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga has convened, and is attempting to finalize their constitution. You may remember my analysis of the draft constitution from last month. Well, now, over the next several days, […]

Okay, okay, you guys got me. I wasn’t gonna write about it, and then apparently I was, despite really wanting to get something written here on the government switch in Canada last week. So for the time being, I guess I’m going to just crawl out of my hole and ponder aloud about yesterday’s piece […]

As Zibblsnrt says, we got him, now what?
I had thought that the killing of Uday and Qusay would demoralize and cripple the Iraqi resistance. I was wrong on that, and so I doubt that Saddam’s capture will either. The resistance seems to have become more cell-based, with more opportunities for leadership at the middle […]

Just in case you’ve been living in a hole in the wall in a distant Iraqi farmhouse, here’s the scoop: US forces finally caught up to Saddam Hussein and, against all expectations, took him alive. Celebrations ensue, Bush gets look Steely, and ordinary citizens can sleep safely knowing the boogeyman is in custody.
Okay, great. But […]

Well, some days you wake up and find something that just smacks you upside the head, right in the I Didn’t Expect That gland. While doing my daily careening through the news this afternoon, I stumbled over a link that made my head spin somewhat.

My dry spell continues, blotted out now and then by the joy of final exams for the semester. Tonight I crawled from the foxhole, having endured and turned back the assault that was my more worrisome exam, and sit here pondering what to inflict on my poor readership today, and in the future as I […]