My travel continues with a trek to LA tomorrow to play the role of talking head for a documentary that you may see on PBS someday soon. In the meantime, you might want to check out this article in The Economist arguing that Jacob Zuma is confounding some of his most concerned critics by not jumping on the crazy train. I never really understood the paranoia, but I suppose it was logical that people who saw Zuma as a wild card based on his personal life and behavior might also expect him to be a wild card as president. It always struck me that the populist pose was largely that, and that Zuma was comfortably within the Mandela-Mbeki mold of left moderation, albeit with more charisma and charm than Mbeki and more of a hands-on inclination than Mandela.
