The World According to Bolton

The President's nominee to head the United Nations kind of hates international cooperation.

In an interview in 2000 on National Public Radio, Mr. Bolton told Juan Williams, "If I were redoing the Security Council today, I'd have one permanent member because that's the real reflection of the distribution of power in the world."

Yeah, great way to regain any sort of reasonable approach to foreign relations there.

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Revenge Of The Neocons

This is an interesting piece about the origins of the neocons, which points to a disconnection (in my opinion) between the original neocons of the 70s and the group often labeled with that epithet today. Notice the folks generally called neocons in this administration never label themselves at all or align themselves publicly with any other group.

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Prehistoric sex gadgets from China

From Boing Boing, Prehistoric sex gadgets from China - the photo shown on BB's page looks like a doubleheader. Ancient Chinese had lesbian toys!

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Wordpress 1.5

You may notice a difference in the site. I've upgraded to Wordpress 1.5, which has a very different theming engine than WP 1.2 (which relied on an external tool called styleswitcher). Have fun, feel free to tell me what's wrong, etc.

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