Month: January 2009

The Bush administration has never had a consistent approach to North Korea, alternating between Bolton’s bluster and Rice’s behind the scenes attempts at multilateral diplomacy with China in the lead role. So perhaps...

I didn’t watch Bush’s farewell address and I haven’t bothered to read it, either. Someday I will. Someday I may actually find it interesting. But not now. When you get down to it I don’t remember any...

Welcome back. This week we’ll be continuing with the painting of the grille of a 1949 Packard automobile.  The photo that I’m using is seen in the photo directly below.  I’ll be using my usual...

The president perhaps revealed more than he intended this week when he criticized other countries for avoiding any involvement with Guantánamo.  They did so for entirely sensible reasons, and by now the soundest legal...

There are something like 85 hours left of the Bush administration. It’s less than 10 degrees here and people are moving in a frigid, yet giddy, manner in the direction of the Capitol. It seems strange that it should end...