Random thoughts: I'm not quite sure why, but the photo at the right really struck me. There's something about it that reminds me of Serbian death squads from the 1990s. Except they're Iran-backed Hezbollah thugs now in the process of seizing Lebanon. Not the type of fellows you want running a country, right? ... The Hub Blog mind then drifts to this Tom Friedman column bemoaning, among other things, our energy policy that boils down to begging Saudi Arabia to alter its oil-production policies. ....