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Brian Doherty celebrates the Heinlein Centennial, talks about the books and Heinlein-Goldwater Fusionism:
Goldwater’s appeal had two things in common with Heinlein’s: an individualist sense that Americans were being overmanaged and overpampered by an out-of-control federal government, and a belief that those rotten commies needed to get it, good and hard.
The problem with the H-G fusion [...]

Now nominal guest-bloggers are announcing absences. Come back, Thoreau! If only Neel Krishnaswami had lived. This would be the best blog ever.

In comments to an excellent piece about the recent report that Donald Rumsfeld killed a rapidly bloating special op that may have captured or killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, James Joyner writes
The thing is, though, presidents from both parties routinely see the use of force as being in the U.S. national interest despite the situation at hand [...]

My man Brett has gone and started an all-iPhone all the time blog. Now, as he points out, Brett comes by his enthusiasm for the iPhone honestly. So there you go. If you have an iPhone, you’ll need to follow Brett’s new blog.

Hilzoy on benchmarks.
Stooksbury on anthropogenic global warming.
Mrs. Offering on a sinister resemblance.
That snarky Eric Martin on Iranian suppport for Iraqi militias.

By Thoreau
I didn’t realize that Spinal Tap would be there.
If we don’t do something about global warming, the earth might spontaneously combust!
Anyway, this will probably be my last post for a week.  Tomorrow I’m heading out to California to go apartment hunting, and my internet access will be sporadic, but I’ll try to post something [...]

By Thoreau
The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security
We hates the DHS! We hates them! They are overlords of the TSA and we hates them!
Now, if he could just find a way to empty out the other 75% of posts…

I see a story that AQI purportedly threatens to wage war on Iran if the Islamic Republic doesn’t stop supporting Shia militias and the nominal national government in Iraq. In an “it’s all fun and games until someone sets off a car bomb” spirit, I’d like to see them try. I don’t think they can [...]