Bad flash of the day

John Negroponte, one of the Reagan administration's loose cannons in Central America in the 1980s, has done spectacularly well under the Rumsfield-Cheney-Bush administration. After a stint as U.N. ambassador and ambassador to the "new Iraq" (which, you know, is the opposite of the "old Europe"), he has just been named to the post of National Security Czar, or whatever they're calling it.

Next I expect them to appoint G. Gordon Liddy head of the FBI.