Okay folks, we are back. If I could trouble you, oh friends of wonk, please pass the word around. Send e-mails, bring it up over white russians, what-have-you. Friend of Wonk Allen Thomson wins a prize for big catch—the Missile Defense Agency is planning to install a forward-based X-band Radar in the Caucasus: “The mobile/transportable …
Wonk Outage
by | 2006-07-16 | 1 Comment
Greg here – I apologize to everyone for the extended outage. We had a series of badly timed events which all occurred about six hours before I sailed away to Bermuda for seven unplugged days. We’re back online now and streaming out of a new data center … so yeah … thanks for your patience …
Eloise at the Security Council
by | 2006-07-06 | 3 Comments
Friend of Wonk Jacqueline Shire sends this dispatch from the UN Security Council as the members-states consider what to do about North Korea: Eloise at the Security Council I’ve often wished that Kay Thompson were alive so that she and Hilary Knight could add an “Eloise at the United Nations” book to their collection of …
Taepo-Dud
by | 2006-07-04 | 14 Comments
So who looks more foolish here? A. Kim Jong-Il for staging a July 4th fireworks display that blew up in his face; B. William Perry and Ash Carter for hyperventilating that we had to blow up this missile on the launch pad, instead of waiting for it to blow itself up 40 seconds after launch; …
