Three stuffs for your edification right now.

Tristero at Hullaballoo on an interview with reporter Mark Danner.

Digby at Hullaballoo on the March of Folly theory applied to Iraq.

Gleen Greenwald (bookmark him) on how it's not Bush's fault that Iraq is a disaster. It's everyone else's.

And a little bit on culture:

COMICS: I just saw Ivan Brunetti's Schizo #4 at the comix store yesterday and snapped up the last copy with wonder. I've only been waiting, like, five years for the next issue of nihlistic, autobiographical rants.

He's an absolute genius and you should read his stuff pronto. Start with issue one. He's apparently sold out and you must start with issue three. Sorry.

MUSIC: The new Belle & Sebastian record is stunningly good.