Why is it called “thudfactor” anyway? Well, the “thud factor” of something is how loud a noise your thesis/assignment/book makes when you drop it from, oh, five feet above the floor.
I chose the name because of the amount of content I had or expected to have. Besides this blog — which is fairly [...]

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I suppose some folks are wondering what I think of the whole Valerie Plame affair, “covered nicely here at OSPolitics”:http://www.ospolitics.org/blog/archives/2003/09/29/the_valeri.php. I have a number of thoughts. Some of them perhaps more valuable than others.
# Why did the SCLM sit on this for two months?
# Why oh why does everyone have to take the easy way [...]

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When I first started this blog thing I didn’t pay much attention to the comments section because I didn’t anticipate anyone commenting.
But now I’ve fixed the long-standing problem of the “remember info” button on the comments form not working, with the single caveat that, if you click “remember me” on the popup comment window, [...]

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Sarah and I took a drive yesterday on the George Washington Parkway. We passed a sign for the CIA Headquarters Building, which in 1999 was renamed the “George Bush Center for Intellegence.” Driving passed, we concluded that 43’s greatest legacy may be to improve people’s general impression of 41.
I would give a great deal to [...]

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This one’s neat. Concerning a Josh Marshall “Talking Points Memo entry”:http://talkingpointsmemo.com/sept0304.html#0924031029pm where Josh says:
bq. But the key here is that the president’s numbers seem to be in something close to free-fall. His approval ratings have fallen roughly 20 percentage points in four months. Even with all the context which may be fairly provided (like the [...]

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