…the official happy horsesh*t. In private, he told the truth: things aren’t going so well. Just to rub it in, Rumsfeld publicly speculated on running an election in Iraq excluding…

…been talking about how the NIE flat out contradicting his happy talk (shorter version: lies) about the situation in Iraq. But the email from the Kerry camp caught this from…

…thing ever. Bloggers, and their readers, are a miniscule fraction of the electorate; but I think they are active water cooler/happy hour politcal conversationalists, both in terms of spouting their…

…are now expected to be happy if Iraq’s oil production can even just get back to where it was right before the US invasion. From today’s news: Iraq exports near…

…short, none of the grownups — at least none not currently part of the administration or the RNC — seem happy: Those on the liberal side are upset about Bush…

…I recommend this one on Pat Tillman’s funeral (Max is definitely right about Ted Rall.) It is, of course, not a happy story, but it does show the human side…

…don’t care what anyone says, including the happy talk analysts quoted farther down in the story: this kind of panic buying is a sign of a late-stage bubble. It’s true…

…400 of their dearest friends to read the blog every day, we could break into N.Z. Bear’s top 100, as measured by traffic (the currrent ranking is 135.) Links only…

…we should be happy to see as it implies that Europe is not able to profit from the rapid pace of US consumption. The rocket is fizzling on the launchpad….

…a copy, I’d be happy to take a whack at it!) However, from the executive summary it seems that their results are driven by pretty standard and uncontroversial economic effects…