Feingold Out

Russell Feingold won't be running for president. Press release here.

And in other, happier news, a German court is preparing a war crimes prosecution of disgraced ex-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whose authorization of interrogation techniques which flagrantly violate the Geneva Conventions, and whose explicit order to General Geoffrey Miller to "gitmoize" Iraqi detention facilities, resulted in the death, torture, and physical and psychological maiming of some uncounted hundreds if not thousands of innocent people. Like disgraced ex-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger --- whose trademark bloodthirsty, ruthless incompetence Bob Woodward helpfully revealed was the guiding spirit in George Bush's Iraq pseudo-policy --- Donald Rumsfeld will not be traveling abroad anytime soon.

Question for the gambling classes: What are the odds that a certain Yale '06 ex-Rumsfeld speech writer will make the list of Rumsfeld co-defendants? And will said individual recognize the irony if he is unjustly prosecuted?

UPDATE: Yeah, that one.