… but I have remained under the weather for over a week now. I’m working a bit on two articles for posting sometime soon, but I’m at the “ideas on paper” stage rather than the actual writing point, and I feel too poorly to make everything gel just yet. It may be the weekend before you see much here.

Although if you want some food for thought, I’ll point to an international matter. Should we really be laughing at Chirac for saying France would use nukes if provoked by nuclear terror? I mean, this is the nation that sunk the Rainbow Warrior to protect their aboveground nuclear tests in the Pacific. Their actions in the Ivory Coast can’t be considered the epitomè of transnational progressivism either — unless you define TP as “everyone but the U.S. gets to act like a colonial power.”

If I had control of the nuclear clock, it would be worth kicking it a few seconds towards midnight, but don’t expect that bunch of leftist fellow travelers to say anything, despite Chirac’s pronouncement being the most open nuclear threat to be delivered since, oh, ’73 or so.