WaPo wrap-up

Some interesting news in the Post over the past few:

Japan, doing the only realistic thing given their own taste of atomic death, have ruled out becoming a nuclear power, despite the Bush administration's failure to deter North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

Kansas, in surely the only possible development that could confound me more than the state's opposition to evolution, seems to be swinging Democratic with the help of a good number of switchers. It'll be interesting to see whether the Dems can cobble together a lasting moderate coalition there.

Web 2.1 has arrived, with a wave of sites using the vast participation of crowds to suss out the lucky clever few. An intriguing idea, but once the crowd starts buying the stock picks of the geniuses, won't we need to have another round to figure out to which geniuses we should listen?

Finally, Harold Meyerson waxes prophetic about the legislation to be passed by the upcoming Democratic Congress. I just wish something here in the blogosphere were made of wood, that I might knock on it.