The IAEA is unhappy with the Iranians, due to a lack of cooperation concerning their nuclear "energy" program. When the Iranians detonate a nuclear weapon, we will all be unhappy.

The latest probe to explore the surface of Mars is getting ready to do some digging.

H.D.S. Greenway believes that John McCain and his supporters have learned the wrong lessons from Neville Chamberlain's ghost. I agree with him to some extent. It is true that Chamberlain and his French counterpart were not wrong to go to Munich to talk with Hitler (and Mussolini). They were wrong to acquiesce in his demand that the Czechs not be allowed to participate in the talks, and they were wrong to agree to his demand that the Sudetenland be transferred to Germany. If they had stood fast, perhaps Hitler would have backed down. But the fact of the matter is that the English and French peoples were not willing to go to war for the Czechs, and their political leaders reflected that belief. It was only after Hitler reneged on his promises at Munich that the scales finally fell from the eyes of the British and French people, and their leaders, that this was a man who would not negotiate in good faith and could not be counted on to live up to his bargains. It seems naive to us, as we look back in retrospect but, with the memories of the horrors of the Western Front still fresh, the people of Great Britain and France did not want to go through it all again and, therefore, were willing to grasp at straws (and sacrifice the freedoms of other peoples) to avoid another war.

Sydney Pollack, dead at 73.

Harry Reid's broken promises may lead to reprisals in the Senate.

Where the British failed, the United States Marines come to the rescue. This, of course, sounds unfair to the British, but the article itself gives no background as to the extent of the British effort, or their resources. I suspect they did not have the resources to do the job properly.

The Rockefellers want some new thinking at Exxon.

Senator Tom Coburn says his fellow Republicans are in denial. I say, Amen.

Bill Clinton says his wife is the victim of a cover-up. Yeesh.