Just boil it down and say it: when it came time to choose a police commissioner Rudy chose a crooked, mobbed up cop. And he was warned about it all in advance.

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In the face of serious drought, Brisbane residents have cut water use nearly in half. Dave Riley, who lives there, says let’s use this as a model for all resource management, for power consumption, recycling, and garbage. Then expand further to include public transportation and, of course, climate change.

Brisbane’s major advantage is that exercises like the water one can work because it is the largest municipality in Australia. So the scale to fiddle was already there and while I’m not advocating council amalgamations as a standard, the fact that the city could intervene at a large level of demographics suggests what could be done at state and federal level if the will, method and guts were in there to harness.

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1) Guliani (the presumptive Republican nominee) has all manner of sleazy doings waiting to be uncovered. You can bet Democratic opposition research knows about all of it, and will slime him when the time is right. Plus, his dealings will make anything uncovered on Hillary look mild by comparison.

2) The US citizenry requires presidential candidates show they can throw a punch. Hillary will amply demonstrate she can throw knock-out blows.

3) Her husband is the best political strategist in the Democratic Party, maybe in the country.

4) The economy and the war will hurt the already demoralized Republicans even more.

Note that none of this has anything to do with her platform, but then when did that matter in our money and media fueled presidential campaigns?

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