Just noting the obvious. I will be back after the first of the year, though.

Since the debate topic is “Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce the size of its nuclear weapons arsenal, and/or substantially reduce and restrict the role and/or missions of its nuclear weapons arsenal,” the Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation has put up “some resources”:http://www.armscontrolcenter.org/policy/nuclearweapons/articles/college_debate_09-10/ for debaters.

Get to work.

Josh Pollack has a “new column”:http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/joshua-pollack over at the Bulletin. I think that’s pretty cool, especially because he’s splitting his salary with me.

Check out his “first effort.”:http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/joshua-pollack/getting-back-to-basics-missile-defense

Slate “got rid of”:http://www.slate.com/id/2225909/ the only thing they had that was worth reading: Today’s Papers. That was the third thing I read every day. Replacing it with a news aggregator is a terrible idea because, well, Slate’s judgment is generally poor; I would rather the staff would just stick to summarizing the 5 major papers.

Attention enterprising bloggers: there’s now a niche to be filled.

A FoKerr tells me that NPR has “Hot Iran Action”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112119429 going all week.

My friend and old colleague Wade Boese has a “new gig,”:http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/08/19/tauscher_sworn_in_t_bureau_takes_shape according to L Rozen. Congratulations to him.

But I feel compelled to remind people that “George Tenet and Ron Jeremy were high school classmates.”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/1430/jeffrey-on-tenet-and-libya