The recession means there are fewer shark attacks. Of course it’s mainly because people are taking fewer expensive beach holidays.

It’s easy to hate George Bush – he took the world into a war that seems pointless and on his watch the economic stability we built our lives on vanished in months.
Though I’ve always had this feeling that he couldn’t be that stupid. He may have made the wrong decisions, but I never bought into the “Bush as idiot” type thinking. Nor could I buy the “He’s just in it for the oil” factors.
So reading the Iraq war as Poker article was strangely comforting. Though it presents a sensible theory of Bush betting the world on his theory and risk analysis – it somehow seems structured if not sensible. Read it yourself and see if you can see a theory of why the man did what he did. It’s trivial to monday morning quarterback him and god knows we’re better off with Obama, but we can’t dismiss him as completely as we have.