Geopolitics

I never believed that Michele Bachmann had a realistic chance of emerging as the Republican party presidential nominee. Notwithstanding her penchant for making shit up, she never struck as being nothing more than a religious zealot with an uncertain grip on reality. During last night's debate in Las Vegas featuring the Minnesota congresswoman and the six dwarfs, Bachmann proved that in addition to her other deficiencies, she is breathtakingly ignorant about basic geography, complaining that Obama got us into Libya and now he's getting us into Africa (the country of Libya being located on the continent of Africa).

The Hermanator

Herman Cain's unexpected victory in the Florida Republican Party straw poll is probably the apogee of a quixotic quest for the party nomination; for the result signifies much more about Texas Gov. Rick Perry's unstable candidacy than it does about Cain emerging implausibly as the eventual nominee.

Derrick Bell 1930-2011

The legal scholar Derrick Bell, who pioneered the critical race theory, died last Wednesday.

Steve Jobs 1955-2011

RIP