Elliot Abrams’ wife (and as Glenn Greenwald points out, central figure in the neocon family) Rachel Abrams on the release of Gilad Shalit: 'Celebrate, Israel, with all the joyous gratitude that fills your hearts, as we all do along with you. 'Then round up [Shalit’s] captors, the slaughtering, death-worshiping, innocent-butchering, child-sacrificing savages who dip their hands in blood and use women””those who aren’t strapping bombs to their own devils’ spawn and sending them out to meet their...

Perfect.

Hey look, even I disagree with the man on like 3 things. Or 4. But no matter what your problem is, you have to admit that Ron Paul is the best candidate for president we've had in a long, long time - and in the foreseeable future too. First of all, he ain't really a politician. Everyone knows that. Even TV says here's a candidate who's always been about using his office as a platform to teach people about liberty, not enhance his own power and prestige. Way back in the 90s the Washington Post...

Y'all been keepin your eye on Lew Rockwell's Political Theater blog? That's where I found this. (Is it just me, or is it just a little bit strange, even in 2011, that Ron Paul stands virtually alone in Washington against the presidential murder of an American citizen? Shit's ugly out there.) Also, Matt Barganier, Jason Ditz, John Glaser and Bryan Beyer have been tearing it up over at the Antiwar Blog lately. Go check 'em out.

Bob Dreyfuss has an interesting piece running at The Diplomat today about a possible opening by the Iranians toward more nuclear talks. I think I'll try to get him on the show... See also this hilarity.

I spoke a little thingamajig at the L.A. Book Fair thing back at the end of April.