OTOH, maybe that's the way it will go down, the democrats are awfully good at shooting themselves in the foot.

I'm pretty sure that's the way it will go down. I don't think she'll drop out. Though I wish she would.

This, exactly. I've been more and more disappointed with the tone of her campaign over the last two months, but this is the capper.

Tep and Kristin are me. Although I still worry about
1) what the Republican slime machine will throw at Obama
and
2) that Obama's "hope" is the new "compassionate conservatism"

My 3pm interview just called to say she thinks she'll be about 5 minutes late. Good that she called, or bad that she's late?

I'm no fan of George Will, but he delivers the kind of cutting snark I normally expect from Stephen Colbert here: [link]

Favorite quote:

Or perhaps she wins if Obama's popular vote total is, well, adjusted, by counting each African-American vote as only three-fifths of a vote. There is precedent, of sorts, for that arithmetic (see the Constitution, Article I, Section 2, before the 14th Amendment).

From a ways back, because I'm catching up:

It is that rarity, a phenomenon with the potential to capture a wider audience, offering a genteel and disciplined alternative to both the slack look of hip-hop and the menacing spirit of goth.

Jilli is "menacing"?

I've been told I can be, and that it's very disturbing because no one expects menacing from a cupcake goth.

I'm tickled by the NYT article on Steampunk, because they quoted a friend of mine. Now if I could just get it through all the Steampunkers' heads that no, really kids, you don't need to invent a persona or character to dress up in wacky clothes. Just wear the damn outfits!

2) Obama's "hope" is the new "compassionate conservatism"

I don't think so. I was here when Bush was Gov. and could've told y'all the hard candy outside, squishy inside was crap.

What's her reason for being late? As long as it's not stupid, I say it's good that she called. Shit happens.

YAY!

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Kat, you get in free, due to the whole giving birth thing. I don't know any other localista moms, though. But I assume one can adopt a small child from some other mom for the weekend for the free admission.

Crap, I forget Burrell is a momista.

My 3pm interview just called to say she thinks she'll be about 5 minutes late. Good that she called, or bad that she's late?

Both! It would have been worse if she had been late and didn't call. Yet, bad that she's late.

Did any of you hear NPR's story about the biological superiority of early motherhood and the nascence of stay-at-home moms? For obvious reasons it touched a nerve with me.

I knew I shouldn't have read that. But I did and agree with you Kat.