In what has to be the most thankless political win since Iain Duncan-Smith was elected leader of Britain's Conservative Party last year, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was elected House Minority Leader by the Democrats.

Frankly, the Democrats missed the boat in not selecting Harold Ford, Jr., who not only is more clueful than the rest of his family combined (not that that would be hard), but also could have prompted the party to modernize its agenda; being the Party of Welfare State Clients (and little else) isn't exactly a vote-winner in 2002.

The Economist agrees (at least on Pelosi).

The Evansville Courier & Press reports that the EPA wants I-69 to be a $900 million boondoggle that accomplishes basically nothing except destroying the few remaining businesses along U.S. 41 that I-65 didn't kill off.

This is a bit of a pilot project to see if (a) Python and PostgreSQL do a decent job as a blog engine and (b) Chris can actually find enough to say to be worthy of having his own blog.

I'd wager on (a) but against (b), personally. :)

Incidentally, all of the layout here is CSS-based; Mozilla and its derivatives seem to cope fine, but some IE variants (notably, IE 5.2 for Mac OS X) seem to have some issues (which I'll try to sort out as I get a chance).