A few brief notes:

If you have to deal with conserveratives who are obsessed with the "Kerry in Cambodia" story, there are two ways you can deal with it. One of which is to try to recite the pages of relevant facts in this post by Brian Balta. The other is to just steal the line I found in comments, well, err... someplace that whatever else we might suspect, we can be sure he was not in Alabama.

Also, Regarding U.S. fears of the Chavez threat from Venezuela: Well, OK, maybe he isn't working on the creation of a Latin American Socialist Superstate. But he acknowledges working on something potentially even nastier: a combined, regional oil company. The horror...

Lastly, The Poor Man and Diana Moon are off brief travel hiatus and posting good stuff.

More: Another piece of research on the Cambodia business...