Thanks to Stoller for the tip.

Borrowing a page from John’s playbook, here’s a bit of what’s going on with me right now1: Reading: I finished A Thousand Splendid Suns last night. Like Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini’s first novel, Suns is set in Afghanistan, and the author again does an incredible job of inserting the reader into the culture and setting. [...]

Heath Haussamen was up early this morning: Most of New Mexico’s leaders in Washington were critical of at least some of the proposals President Bush made Tuesday in his State of the Union address. Oh really? On energy independence and climate change, Bush called for reducing the nation’s gasoline usage by 20 percent in the [...]

In addition to the House of Representatives, it looks like Jeff Bingaman — our boy from Silver City — is getting in on the climate change action as well. From The Hill: Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is floating climate-change legislation on Capitol Hill that he plans to introduce soon. A draft version of the bill [...]

Blogging at Washington Monthly, Zachary Roth writes: The Washington Post reported over the weekend that plans for a new nuclear weapons program will continue, despite the finding that existing stockpiles will remain reliable for almost the next century. One of the reasons that the program–known as the Reliable Replacement Warhead program–looks set to move ahead, [...]