A bully, a brothel, a tribute and a little bit more

Working on a blog about our beloved health minister, the pitt bull of the right, the moral enforcer of the nation, the feminist hater, the unimaginative intellectual, the serial policy cost under-estimator and I nearly forgot an apparent cuckold. For now, from the International Affairs Desk here is what I've been catching up on over week.

When it was announced, I hedged my bets on Wolfowitz getting to the WorldBank and Bolton not getting to the UN. Looks like I might have been right now that Colin Powell is on the offensive. Follow bully-boy Bolton's pitfalls here.

You are always welcome at the country that whores itself as the brothel of the world all thanks to the men who loved you two time. Sean Paul from the agonist writes about the Realist's Case For Genocide Intervention. I spent wednesday at a company meeting where we were told that Japan had 4.9 million VoIP consumers compared to somewhere between 100K to 300K per European country. Apparently this is why.

Finally, a tribute to Sivaram from an opposition idealogue.