James McGovern wants me to address his political post on the middle east:

I will pay $75 if James Robertson can write a 100% positive, thoughtful and most importantly detailed response to this blog entry.

The thing is, this blog is hosted on Cincom's servers, and I use it to do Smalltalk advocacy and IT-related ranting. I don't address partisan/international politics here, for the simple reason that I don't want to imply that I speak for Cincom in that regard. I've toyed with the idea of running a more wide open blog elsewhere, but haven't given in to that temptation.

Bottom line - don't expect non-IT politics here.