By any definition, Iraq is in a state of civil war. Indeed, the only thing standing between Iraq and a descent into total Bosnia-like devastation is 135,000 U.S. troops — and even they are merely slowing the fall.

What prompted you to do the now infamous “Is Bush an ‘idiot’?” segment? … I think, really, one of the most telling parts of [Bob] Woodward’s book “Bush at War” is when he asks Bush if he talked to Colin Powell about the invasion of Iraq, and he says, “No, I didn’t feel the need to, because I knew how we was going to respond, that he was against the war,” which sort of sends a chill up your spine, because those are the people you want the president talking to. You want him asking tough questions of aides who actually disagree with him.

What I’m experiencing in testing these days is much along the lines of what I’ve been hoping for a while now; namely that after I finish creating my page in a Gecko-based browser, loading it in IE7 for the first time isn’t a horrible mess.