Billmon: A Visit From Juan Cole

Juan Cole -- Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Michigan, burgeoning media personality and blogger extraordinaire -- passed through here (here being my quiet corner of suburban Philadelphia) yesterday, after stopping off at Swarthmore College to give a talk on the situation in Iraq.

Like many in Left Blogostan, I look to Juan for my daily dose of news and analysis of the Cheney Administration continues to put the "mess" in Mesopotamia, so getting a two-hour straight shot was a nice treat, and having a little face time (and a few beers) afterwards was even better.