States and Bladders

I was a bit amused by the State of the Union address yesterday - particularly the part where George Bush, lover of oil and champion of the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge oil drilling, declared that the US had an oil addiction and needed to break it. It's quite a volte-face, and it'll be interesting to see whether it's genuine or a distraction tactic.

Thankfully the rhetoric around Iran wasn't as bad as the whole "Axis of Evil" thing, but it's still something to watch - there may be some fireworks there in the next couple of years (there's a massive American military presence right over the border, after all).