Dick Lugar just hit one out of the park on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made a noble effort to get UNCLOS through the Senate three years ago, only to be blocked by Senators Frist and Inhofe.

I’ve met Paul Wolfowitz on many occasions and used to see him quite a lot over at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He has always been cordial to me and to others when I have seen him in public.

Or any of our sons? or daughters? on any side of this incredibly reckless escapade in Iraq? Boston University Professor Andrew J. Bacevich is a brave, thoughtful public intellectual who has tried — in reserved, serious terms — to challenge the legitimacy of the Iraq War.

It looks like George W. Bush is going to finish what his father started. In 1982, negotiations concluded on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS for short). President Reagan instructed the U.S.

This will be the big week in finally sorting out the Paul Wolfowitz mess at the World Bank.

(Annie — Oakley the Amazing Weimaraner’s sister — running in the Congressional Cemetery; taken with cell phone camera) The Boston Globe has a fascinating long expose on Rose Kennedy’s life and letters.

MTV has been doing outreach with some blogs to find environmental activists for its True Life reality show. Apparently, though, they’re not interested in profiling people doing the quiet, hard work of creating change and winning hearts and minds.

My colleague Nir Rosen will have the cover story of the New York Times Magazine this Sunday in a major article titled “The Exodus: An Account of the Iraq Refugee Crisis.

For those checking in on the blog now, I’ll be talking about Wolfowitz and the state of play now at 6:30 pm EST on The Rachel Maddow Show. It’s been quiet today — but Tuesday is the new deadline for Wolfowitz to make his case.

If you can excuse the acronym-speak in the title of this post, I hope you’ll share my disappointment that the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) is falling on hard times.