Hillary Clinton is going to add yet another chapter to her incredibly fascinating life — lawyer, feminist, first lady, healthcare diva, U.S. senator, and now secretary of state at a time when America’s foreign policy and national security positions are dramatically eroded.

I have become an increasingly mesmerized fan of social networking sites like Facebook and vehicles like Twitter in changing and essentially rewiring the “connectivity of people to ideas.

I’m going to make a list of books here — some out recently — and some others that I think are just great reads for people to consider picking up over the holidays. I’m going to make this an ongoing list as I get so many requests from people for books to read.

I work with some of the greatest minds in the country when it comes to understanding what is going on in the global terrorism field — Steve Coll, Peter Bergen, Nicholas Schmidle, Robert Wright, Tim Golden, Afshin Molavi, and others.

The first blog post I did over four years ago at The Washington Note had to do with the subject of war profiteering and players in the national security establishment that were making money from defense contractors while also serving as so-called “objective” commentators on the war, weapons systems, and the like.

Joseph Stiglitz is an economist I wish Barack Obama would spend some more time with. I can’t attend this one time only showing of Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz but I would if in New York. I’ll be on a plane to Brussels. Hope some of you can make it and report back.

Monday and Tuesday this next week, I have three events I am chairing at the New America Foundation — and all of them are superb. If you are in the Washington, DC area, you are welcome to join us.

Hot damn! I am very excited today. A book, America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy that I was very involved in helping to hatch made it to Michiko Kakutani’s top 10 list for books from 2008.

This is Annie, Oakley’s little sister, at a thoughtful moment.

I got married to my partner of 17 years in San Francisco on August 18th of this year. We did so under the beautiful dome of San Francisco’s magnificent City Hall — and I had my picture taken (above) with Harvey Milk’s statue.