This is going to come as a shock, but...

...posting will be light over the next few days. I'm going to be in Mexico (blessedly without internet, unless the BlackBerry works) until late Monday. If I'm lucky I'll read the paper on Sunday.

I've had a lot of thoughts brewing over the last several weeks and just haven't managed to operationalize them, as they say, so hopefully a little break will help me to get some things down. I've been contemplating the mother of all Afghanistan posts (aside: did you know that expression -- "the mother of all..." -- was introduced into the mainstream by Saddam Hussein?) for some time now; maybe I'll get to that one.

Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the weekend. And if you're at the Jaffe/Cloud CNAS book event on Tuesday night, you'll be joined by 60% of the Ink Spots crew.