by TChris

• Whatever his motivation, Arnold Schwarzenegger merits props for his support of legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in California. (Here's what else he needs to do.) What are we to think, though, about his incongruous love affair with the Hummer?

• This is the text of the president's weekly radio address. Ever optimistic, the president is again using the V word. The definitition of victory remained unspoken.

He didn't say what "victory" in Iraq will look like. Given that most of the Iraqi deaths over the past several months have been the result of sectarian conflict, would "victory" require U.S. troops to intervene in a civil war? Nor did the president say how the Iraqi enterprise prevents terrorist plots such as the recently disrupted plan to blow up airliners.

• "This is the time?" Wasn't the time, what, three or four years ago?

This is the time for Mr. Bush to acknowledge serious errors, present evidence that he has learned from them, define clear goals and set a strategy for accomplishing them. Time is short.

• The administration decided to "cut by nearly half the jobs of lawyers at the IRS who audit the tax returns of the richest Americans," while the government sends Ronald Isley of the Isley Brothers to prison for three years and one month for tax evasion. Isley must not be a Republican.

• Opium farmers in Afghanistan are having their best year ever.