Sunday morning roundup

Someone thought that deploying the Guatemalan military to fight crime was a good idea? Have we learned nothing from decades of abuse and carnage?

I'm looking forward to the debate that delineates conceptual foreign policy divergences into practical differences. Apart from the number of $2-billion submarines.

The role of race in politics and policy requires a delicate balance.

I've lost all respect for Candy Crowley (though I'd still defend her against tacky jokes about her weight, which is irrelevant); she's somewhat out of touch:

After the last presidential debate, moderator Candy Crowley similarly wrote off even asking a question about the future of the planet as a poor use of air time: “I had that question for all of you climate-change people. We just, you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing, so you knew you kind of wanted to go with the economy.”

All of "you climate-change people"? Really?

Wait! Another datapoint on omnivores' attitudes about dating vegetarians. This "preemptive judging" phenomenon is noteworthy, meshes what I've rambled about in the past: the people who take issue with herbivores have issues with their own eating habits, which the herbivores expose, usually unintentionally. The people comfortable with their eating habits don't give a $hit.