The sorts of things I've been talking about on this blog (in and around the political cheap shots, cat pictures, impenetrable psychobabble and random ranting) -- the end of cheap energy, religious mania, crushing debt -- are issues that ought to transcend political ideology. It's a measure of exactly how partisan Washington is these days that it can be otherwise, how (as an example) you can have a near-party-line vote on raising the debt ceiling -- with the "conservatives" the party voting *for* more debt!

In that spirit, here's a book by a former GOP standard-bearer that I intend to read attentively:



Salon review here.