Alex Leamas: The best thing to come out of this whole teary fiasco is the post and comments at Marc*nt’s. Ping

In a sneering piece on Bush the Younger’s view of his likely place in history, Dan Froomkin attributes to him a Messiah Complex. At the same time, it is clear from the contrast between the qualified language of the President and the certainty of the journalist, that Bush speaks with more humility than Froomkin.  And one may say, “as well he should,” reflexively, without considering in what way we are

US sitting atop vast reserves of clean-burning, environmentally friendly snake oil.

hilzoy at Obsidian Wings: A member of Andy Olmsted’s family has just written me to say that if people want to do something in honor of him, they can send donations to a fund that has been set up for the four children of CPT Thomas Casey, who served under Andy and was killed while trying to help him. The address is here: Capt. Thomas Casey Children’s fund P.O. Box

After all of the tears and recriminations — and a likely loss in New Hampshire — I suspect Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign will soldier on… but what do they do with the wave generated by Sen. Barack Obama? They should work on turning Obama back from a Movement to a man.  Clinton is already making a start on arguing that Obama has not been a leader, but is picking the wrong issues, when