D: B is back today, after a hiatus of over a month. We will return to ‘normal’, i.e. to blogging about the most important issues of the day, as well as some more trivial matters that have to do with the authors’ extracurriculars. Also, stay tuned as we are working on launching a blog focusing specifically on Georgia and the South Caucasus.

And what a way to re-start this, than by posting an extraordinarily embarassing comment by Sarah Palin, on CBS’s evening news. When asked what she thought about the financial crisis, she threw in every shred of information that remotely smelled of economics, and that had been crammed into her head by advisors during the past few weeks. Also watch Jack Cafferty and Wolf Blitzer who go good cop - bad cop on Palin.