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Jim Henley on the possibility of a “Nixon-goes-to-China” rapprochement with Iran:

It will gall a lot of administration opponents. When we suggest that we probably could have had a comprehensive deal with the Iranians three or four years ago, it will fall on deaf ears. When we argue that we wasted hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of US and Iraqi lives to get to a place we stood a good chance of coming to more cheaply, we’ll fade into a barely intelligible background buzz in the national conversation. We’ll make the same arguments about the need for the genuine oversight that one-party government prevents, but hey, times are good today!

That will be a price worth paying.

Yes, people who plod along Adams eastward from Union Station, Eric Sink has something to say:

When you are in an airport terminal or concourse, your primary goal (aside from safety, obviously), should be to not annoy the pathologically impatient people like me. There are three ways you can achieve this:

• Walk quickly.
• Walk in a straight line.
• Watch where you are walking.

I think you all should pretend that Adams between Union Station and LaSalle is one big airport concourse.

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Jim Henley, being the kind of blogger his dog thinks he is.
Once I admired Alan Dershowitz, but no more.
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