Recently, I haven't had a lot to say about much other than the Middle East, so I'll just agree to endorse 87% of what Kevin Drum has to say about domestic policy from here on out. For the record, Republican leaders are bad, and Joe Lieberman is annoying. Social insurance is good, single-payer health care is inevitable, America's crime, infrastructure, child development, and urban policies are national scandals. The so-called war on drugs is self-defeating. Many prominent social conservatives are scary, annoying, and/or hypocritical, and the GOP plays Lucy and Charlie Brown football games with them all the time. The environment is good and we should expend more of our GDP (via "free market" approaches where possible) to save it because we'll regret not doing so later and it will cost more to reverse the damage we're doing. Most farm and energy exploration subsidies are bad. The bankruptcy bill is appalling. We should have nationwide non-partisan redistricting. Tom DeLay has no soul. That's about it.

Maybe I'll pull an ogged and write up a couple "time capsule" posts while I'm thinking of it.