The Gods Must Be Smiling

Or the muses at least.

Two articles, one on generational concepts of leadership, one buying locally, were published in the WaPo just as I'm starting to think about writing articles on those subjects. I'm not sure exactly how 'Many Potential Leaders of Tomorrow Reject the Role' will be used - might get wrapped into another post I'm writing, or might end up inspiring another, but 'In Trial Run, Chipotle Heads to the Farm' will become a point in a piece about our cultural food amnesia (or something like that).

Looking Back in Iraq

Slate's been running some excellent essays from pundits and bloggers to answer the question: 'why did we get it wrong?'

In a parallel universe, this essay by Jim Henley ran in the The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate and The New Yorker.