Now You Know: All this while I thought Totten's blog was quiet because he was gearing up to go to Iraq. Turns out he's there and back already.

Sorry for misleading everyone about my travel schedule. For those of you who forgot...a few weeks ago I said I was beginning my Iraq trip today.

At least one organization on the U.S. terrorist watch list already monitors my Web site, and a Lebanese friend of mine convinced me that it would be smart not to advertise to the entire planet when I would be in that country. That’s why hardly any new material has been posted on this Web site lately.

He's already got his first piece up, about arriving in Kurdistan. Click on over and read the blogosphere's best reporter.