Twas the night before Fitzmas, and in the White House Every one was scared shitless, and Bush was quite soused. The indictments were hanging like Damocles’ sword As verminous oxen prepared to be gored. The perps were all sleepless, curled…

An Arab News editorial: Contrived Fury It was certainly undiplomatic of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to call for Israel to be "wiped off the map" at a conference on Zionism in Tehran. But the wave of Western fury, with countries…

Mr Ahmadinejad told some 3,000 students in Tehran that Israel’s establishment had been a move by the West against the Islamic world. True enough. (Update: This is true in the sense that Western powers want dominance over the Middle East…

No official news until Friday, however major media is all but saying Rove and Libby will be indicted. Manwhile, Harriet Miers has withdrawn her nomination, an obvious sign of a collapsing administration. Ordinarily this would be huge news, but Indictment…

From Dave Winer, formerly of Radio Userland, on Typepad having serious performance problems of late. Science, art, voodoo and luck. Ben and Mena Trott explain why they’re having performance trouble on their Typepad service. Maybe our theory about putting the…

Well, Polizeros is up and running well on the new WordPress platform. Wahoo! WordPress is open source, has dozens of plug-ins, an intuitive interface, and a growing user base. Plus, it has built-in support for podcasting. The more I use…