Hey, that thing called “diplomacy” actually works!
Choosing his words with customary care, Bush recently mentioned Iran and WW III in the same sentence. Neocons have decided that a third front (Iran) will ensure victory on the first two (Afghanistan and Iraq), and have appalled the world by recommending immediate bombing of Iranian nuclear sites. [...]

Turns out that we’re all just as safe as we need to be, Port of Long Beach included…
We found that it wouldn’t require much in the way of planning, money or resources for a single person to wreak havoc at the Port of Long Beach.
But there is nothing to worry about, because according to the [...]

Port of Long Beach finds a “Chicago typewriter”
This may not have been quite the caper Rachel Powers had in mind when she wrote her recent District piece, “How They’ll Blow Up the Port of Long Beach,” but I guess a man smuggling in a 1920s-era machine gun–through the Port–will have to do.

A glimpse of the future
The future, they say, is unwritten, but I think Congressman Bart Stupak’s prediction about the future of port security is so dead-on, it can safely be carved in stone. “The next generation of equipment will only be as good as the next salesman knocking on the door of the Department of [...]

My God, can you imagine what the numbers would be if we didn’t have all those yellow ribbon magnets?

I haven’t fully digested this piece, but it seemed important enough to warrant immediate transfer to the Daily Briefing. The upshot: many, many more war U.S. veterans commit suicide daily than die in hostile action [...]

There’s still plenty of poverty in Long Beach
I’m the mother of a 22-month old, so by 5pm I’m so tired that I want to weep but can’t, because it would upset my child too much. Tonight, in just such a state, I thought, “How unhealthy can a few chicken mcnuggets be?,” and we pulled [...]

Six years after 9/11, America’s second-largest port is still open for terrorist business

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
I’m a big one for historical remembrances–1066 (William the Conqueror lands on the English coast), 1945 (the atom bomb dropped twice in a single month), and 1977 (premiere of Three’s Company, with the first episode “A Man About the House”–hilarious)–and, [...]

It’s only fitting that our first CEO President should also be our first Successories President

President Bush recently spoke with David Asman of Fox Business Channel, who decided to ask the tough questions, like:
What’s your biggest disappointment? “Social Security”
What’s your biggest success? “You know, I would say the advance [...]

Waaaaaay easier than reading The Executioner’s Song
Mi esposo just came home, read my Mailer notice, and said, “You left out my favorite quote!” So here it is, wisdom from the great man himself:
“You never know a woman till you’ve had her in court.”
Mailer would know, having been married six times. Instead of wondering [...]

Two-time Pulitzer winner, author of The Executioner’s Song dead at 84
Vonnegut died earlier this year, and now we say goodbye to Norman Mailer.
It was a shock to see him hobbling on two canes during interviews related to his last novel, The Castle in the Forest. But he was still a crank with a [...]