Writes political columnist (!) Joe Bob Briggs on the drafting of an Iraqi constitution:

"Fortunately we don't have to worry about whether the Sunnis [in Iraq] think it's a Shiite constitution, or the Shiites think there's too much Kurdish stuff in there, or that anyone thinks the other side is cheating or making it too religious or too Irreligious. That's because the principal constitutional advisor, sent from New York University's law school to propose various drafts of this historic document, is Noah Feldman -- an Orthodox Jew.

"This is gonna be fun."