CBS calls Virginia for Obama

The Giants win the pennant
The Giants win the pennant
The Giants win the pennant

John and Marty were a morning radio duo. They had been at the station for 20 years. They would crack lame jokes (MICHAEL JACKSON IS WEIRD, LOL) and do a "high-larious [pronounced like that] headlines" bit about moose getting jobs as security guards at banks in small towns in Maine and that sort of thing. They never took their eyes off their goal though: the evening rush hour slot and, some day, syndication. "Next year, next year" the suits in the front office kept telling them "keep it up in the AM and just as soon as The Crew retire, the slot is all yours". Maybe once John and Marty had believed the crap management spewed but over the years they turned sour, the banter devolving to bitter recriminations. Then, one day Marty just won't stop hitting the "awwooga" button when John is trying to talk.

There's sounds of a scuffle

Then, a groaning gurgle and a sharp bang

The line goes dead





The next day there were two new morning DJ's on Crazy 104.7 and no one had ever heard of John or Marty.



So ends the tragic waltz of John and Marty, two local radiomen who burned not too wisely, but too well.

Weep not for them

They've gone to that big broadcast booth in the sky

But, every so often, remember your old friends John and Marty and hit the awwooga button (just once) in their memory.

And they'll smile down on you.

From the land where it's always drive time

And the next caller is always a very special guest.

Netflix and shame

I feel a sense of personal failure when I return a movie to Netflix unwatched, after having it sit in my house for two or three weeks (during which I watch and return other movies).

Bloomberg

I'm sorry Bloomberg isn't going to get the VPOTUS slot but "A black and a Jew" is the beginning of a joke at a Republican fund-raiser, not a presidential ticket. Bloomberg for Treasury Secretary for real, though.

Mia culpa.

Looks like I was wrong on all counts. I forgot that Hillary isn't responding to the real world, she's reacting to her own fantasy world.

If Hillary were my vice president, I'd pity my food taster.

I'd also like to announce the retirement of the Nomination tag. The Nomination is over and Obama has won it. Hillary can continue playing primary tea party as long as she pleases, it matters not one whit.

We have an election to win, an election that will determine whether the country will go forward or remain mired in the failures of Right-Idealism abroad and crony-capitalist fiscal mismanagement at home that the Bush Administration (and the Bush Administration's anointed successor, John McCain) represents.

EDIT: It looks like the Neocons over at PNAC couldn't pay their internet bill anymore...

Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) supports Salmon dieoffs

Gordon Smith: Bad for bears, wrong for America.

(This message paid for by Charismatic Megafauna for Merkley)

Prediction

Hillary will suspend on Tuesday night. She won't concede because:

1. She's hoping for a Sirhan Sirhan in June.
2. She wants to get a bailout from Obama.
   

But she will suspend after being beaten in the West (I predict 19 of 31 delegates in SD and MT go for Obama).

Remember folks (and I mean that literally since only my family reads this): you heard it here last!

Vertical farming

Vertical farming really unlocks the crazy dreamer in me. I see a world of self-sufficient cities, swaths of the country returned to nature. Safaris watching Buffalo graze old corn fields in Kansas.

I'm sure that it can never work (just imagine the water needed and wastewater produced, especially since water supply generally and urban water supply in particular is an area of concern), but what a beautiful idea. Maybe it's just because I was a sucker for the Arcologies back in Sim City 2000 or maybe because I've always been a fan of urban utopianism but...

Rules Committee

Hillary supporters: "Democracy means we win every time no matter what."

Goddamn it, don't these meetings have Sergents-at-Arms?

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex In The City (But Were Afraid to Ask)

From Anthony Lane's review of the movie:

I walked into the theatre hoping for a nice evening and came out as a hard-line Marxist, my head a whirl of closets, delusions, and blunt-clawed cattiness. All the film lacks is a subtitle: “The Lying, the Bitch, and the Wardrobe.”

Ouch.

Bad Ass in Chief

(Photo: Talking Points Memo)

So that's what becoming below-average feels like.

Kennedy, Hart and Hillary (or: Hillary as Black Panther)

Driving into work today I heard some Hillary supporter whining (do Hillary and her supporters have tones of address other than "whining" or "shrill"?) that Gary Hart and Teddy Kennedy were allowed to carry on their candidacies until the convention and that that the calls for Hillary to end her campaign were sexist.

Two points:

1. The notion that the needs and interests of women voters can only be served by women politicians is itself terribly sexist and in fact fundamentally undemocratic. My interests are represented in the U.S. Congress by Gwen Moore (with whom, to belabor the point, I share neither gender nor race) and she represents those interests with at least acceptable ability. To suggest that a politician must belong to a group to serve the interests of that group is to subscribe to some sort of bizarre atavistic theory of representation more suited to the separatist movements of the 1970's than to the needs of America today.
   
2. It is telling that this Hillary supporter takes 1980 and 1984 as her models. In both 1980 (Kennedy) and 1984 (Hart), the party lost the general election by huge margins (although to be fair, the full measure of blame for those defeats cannot be laid upon Kennedy and Hart) and emerged internally devastated. I suppose that should Hillary's greed split the party, she can have in 2012 the coronation she hoped for in 2008 with Obama (and through him, young or minority party members) safely relegated to either the backbench or the dustbin (where we clearly belong) and go on to give McCain a second term.
   

The story closes with the Hillary supporter threatening that if Hillary is not awarded the nomination she (and her co-conspirators) will vote McCain in November.

Let me be perfectly clear so that there is no chance of misunderstanding me: A vote for McCain in November is a vote for someone who has consistently been against Roe v. Wade, against the availability of contraception (for both minors and adults), against pay equity, against flex time, against universal health care and on the wrong side of every other issue that affects working families.

But Obama defeated Hillary, so they won't vote for him.

Florida is Zimbabwe, lol whut?

Hillary's latest insanity almost makes me wonder if she is doing all this purposefully to turn even her most fanatical supporters from her to Obama for the good of the party.