Blogging on this site may be sparse for a while.

"What else is new?" you probably ask. Well, this time I'm giving some notice.

Nothing bad - just a combination of personal and professional pressures may make it difficult to blog much for a while, and my entries will probably be shorter than usual when they do come.

A good Yom Kippur and Sukkot to all.

And go Yanks!

P.S. No, I am not being deployed to Iraq.

To the third tier of the Jewish Press' list of "Favorite Websites." Next step: "Honorable Mention!"

Thanks for the tip, Mom! You and Grandma always knew I'd amount to something, someday. And thanks to author and reader Jason Maoz for the kind words; please keep coming back.

The virtues of procrastination have been revealed again: I was about to write a post about how I thought the lack of activity with the Valerie Plame story since its revelation, along with certain other revelations, had persuaded me that there was probably less to the story than the Bush-haters would have liked.

Maybe not.

I still find it hard to believe that the administration would combine such high levels of illegality and incompetence. But if everything in the Washington Post story is true (and that still is a big "if"), then I agree with every word of this Daniel Drezner post. In fact, I might take some precautions and make a donation to the Lieberman campaign (not that it will make a difference), just in case.

For more, follow the links in the Drezner post.

I still have a lot of trouble believing that the worst-case (or best-case, depending on your orientation) is true; wouldn't it have been easier, and less traceable, to hire a plane to sky-write Plame's status above Capitol Hill? But a year ago, it would've seemed even less likely that Saddam Hussein would've destroyed his chemical or biological weapons without telling anyone about it. So who knows?