Friday, April 25, 2008

Syrian Nukes

Kevin Drum provides a really good walkthrough on the Syrian nuclear situation. In essence, it looks like North Korea provided Syria with the material to build a plant which is really only for making nuclear weapons, but it doesn't appear that they're close to actually having nukes, and the plant alone isn't enough to make nukes. I don't suppose that the Kristol wing of the GOP will look closely at the salient details, however.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.