Kevin Drum, citing 1968, says that Democrat's needn't panic. I don't really buy the historical analogy for a reason that can be summed up in two words: George Wallace. Without him in the race to split the white supremacist vote that went for Goldwater in 1964,...
Althoug Uncommitted doubled him up, Alan Keyes prevailed in a tight race with Duncan Hunter last night and probably dealt a knock-out blow to Rudy Giuliani's campaign. He spent pretty.
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.
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 and overall will do well enough in the delegate count to remain a prohibitive favorite. But...
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 long excursions into vandalism, edit wars, and the review author's efforts to spare entries from deletion.Taekwang...
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.
"Diamond" Joe Quimby vs. Senator Clay Davis?
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 given that they ask about why and whether the women post photos of themselves on their...
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.