… apparently to make a horror movie. Here’s some of his new missive from the new celebrity polyblog Huffington Post: I wonder how many North Korean nuclear weapons we will have to discoverin order for this Administration to conclude we can no longer continueto preach nuclear temperance from a barstool. The Bush approach tonon-proliferation has become a dangerous policy pretzel: demand UNinspections, ridicule UN inspections, invade the countries with noweapons, and demand that others forswear nukes while we build a newgeneration of new nukes. Meanwhile, today the International AtomicEnergy Agency (IAEA) announced its estimates that North Korea has closeto six nuclear weapons. Yup, that’s some good work BushCo is doing to keep us all from getting incinerated by delusional Stalinists. Thanks, guys. Need more scary stuff to wake you up at 4am? Another homeboy, KSG’s Graham Allison. (Just read the titles of the stuff he writes. Ack.) This is from Foreign Affairs, now more than a year old. You think anything’s changed much since then? Although it has made progress on some fronts, Washington has failed totake scores of specific actions that would measurably reduce the riskto the country. Unless it changes course — and fast — a nuclearterrorist attack [...]
EXTRA – Blue Mass. Group receives press release!
In a move sure to rock the Massachusetts political landscape, Pat Jehlen’s campaign for state Senate has emailed a press release directly to Blue Mass. Group. Jehlen’s blog-friendly strategy bodes well for the role of the blogosphere in this and other upcoming elections. In related news, Blue Mass. Group posts appear first on a Google search for "jehlen senate." Seriously, it’s nice to be on the mailing list. Oh yeah – the release actually does have some contents. It turns out that Robert Reich has endorsed Jehlen for Senate. From the release: ?Pat Jehlen is the kind of principled, progressive Democrat we need in the State Senate,? said Reich. ?She has spent her adult life fighting for education funding, better jobs, affordable healthcare, and a fair playing field for working families. She has been a leader on child labor issues, raising the minimum wage, and boosting local aid to help cities and towns. I believe Pat will be a great Senator on Beacon Hill, and I hope everyone in the district will join me in supporting her in the special election.? Reich, of course, ran a "progressive" campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 2002, but could not beat [...]
