Joseph Wilson's wife

* colbert at the WHCA dinner. funny:

"He noted former Ambassador Joseph Wilson in the crowd, as well as " Valerie Plame." Then, pretending to be worried that he had named her, he corrected himself, as Bush aides might do, "Uh, I mean... Joseph Wilson's wife." He asserted that it might be okay, as prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was probably not there."

* athenae: "And in Bush's America, things that make the halfbright feel yucky are the things that decide elections."

* jeralyn: "I don't think Fitz is planning on indicting anyone besides Rove in this next round, but I could be wrong. Also, I think the investigation will continue after Rove is indicted, if he is indicted."

* iran could make money by cutting oil supplies:

"The growing international crisis over Iran's nuclear programme could trigger a catastrophic oil price spike, sending crude prices over $100 a barrel, senior Wall Street analysts are warning.... Mary Novak, managing director of energy services at consultants Global Insight, said Iran would not need to turn off the taps completely - even if it shut off just a 10th of its 3 million barrels a day of exports, the impact would be dramatic." (link)

has anyone in the egadministration ever done any gaming? incentive analysis? prisoners dilemma? probably. what does that tell you?

* Kleiman:

"Brad DeLong is right: Democrats are for high gasoline prices on environmental grounds, except when gasoline prices are high. Republicans are for an unfettered market, except when gasoline prices are high.

He might have added that both parties are strongly committed to ending America's dependence on foreign oil, and will do anything to solve that problem except the one thing that would actually work: increasing the price of gasoline at the pump." (link)

* here's an interesting article by Stephen Kangas which i should probably have been familiar with about the CIA:

"The wealthy have always used many methods to accumulate wealth, but it was not until the mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient machine. After 1975, it became greater than the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists, think tanks, conservative foundations, and PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent into the stratosphere."