Katha Pollitt on John Pomfret's Misogyny Clearinghouse:Linda Hirshman ["For Hillary's Campaign, It's Been a Class Struggle," Outlook, March 2] explains that women, including me, who support Sen. Barack Obama are "fickle," "elites" who don't care about low-income women, have possibly been seduced by the wealthy and...
It looks increasingly likely: Obama, assuming something like his 10-point lead in the Texas caucuses holds up, will win Texas by the metric that actually matters for determining the nomination.
Ohio finally called for Clinton.It also looks increasingly like she'll narrowly win the vote in the Texas primary -- when was the last time that an updated vote count significantly.
Open thread...
The NYRB has a fascinating piece on Wikipedia; it's technically a review of a book called Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, but mostly it's a natural history of the site, with.
I can't find a news report about it yet, but the buzz is that Gary Gygax, founder of Dungeons and Dragons, passed away this morning. I played my first game.
From Wing Nut News (er I mean Right Wing News), we get a feature of "hot female conservative bloggers" or something like that (ok, the title doesn't include "hot" but.
After a false alarm last year, it appears that the Australians have begun an effort in earnest to find the wrecks of the Kormoran and the Sydney:Deep-water sonar imaging equipment.
My worth-very-little guess is that the most likely outcome is that (with Clinton winning OH and RI, and Obama carrying VT) Obama wins the delegates in Texas and Clinton squeaks out a popular vote victory there. Should that come to pass, I think most of what...
Remember yesterday when the Washington Post made room for Charlotte Allen's screed? Well, apparently the whole thing was just one tongue-in-cheek big ol' joke. Just like Joel Stein. Funny, I'm.
Omar Little vs. Anton Chigurh?