Just in time! 

Wow.  I removed my blogroll and went from 3% space free to 75% free.  I guess having that on every page was a bit too much ;)

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I've bought myself some time by eliminating some lesser-used categories (which apparently take up some amount of space, who knew). It's apparent however that I'm going to have to move this blog at some point in the near future to somewhere with more disk space, and a slightly less silly use of said space. I plan to maintain this space here in support of Salon in any case.

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Hmm, somehow I've managed to use almost all of my 40 mb of allocated space. I'm trying to figure out how to rectify this, but in the meantime posting will be sparse

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"Nothing is more beautiful, more elevating, more important in a speech than fact and logic. People think passionate and moving oratory is the big thing, but it isn't. The hard true presentation of facts followed by a declaration of how we must deal with those facts is the key. Without a recitation of hard data, high rhetoric seems insubstantial, vaguely disingenuous, merely dramatic. Without a logical case to support rhetoric has nothing to do. It's like icing without cake.

Once the facts and the declaration are put forward it's fine to use eloquence if you can muster it, and ringing oratory too if it will help people to see things as you do, and help them lean toward taking the course of action you recommend.

So to sum up: Moving oratory is what you use to underscore a point. It is not in itself the point.

George W. Bush is being told by some pundits and others that ringing oratory is what he most needs in his State of the Union address tomorrow night. That is exactly wrong. "

Once again I find myself surprisingly in agreement with Peggy Noonan.  She and I both agree that tomorrow's State of the Union address is the last chance Bush has to credibly put forward his facts.  Time to show your hand or the world will continue to call your bluff.  Show us all to be completely wrong with some substantial, credible, hard evidence and I think you'd be surprised how the tide could turn.