http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/us/politics/07dems.html

Adam Nagorney of the NYT states "Obama Is Making Inroads, but Fervor Fell Short at End"

Uhh, maybe he's in some kind of Clintonian fog, but last time I looked Obama had the makings of a movement, and Clinton is just more of bush/clinton/bush/...clinton

Obama will prevail over Clinton and emerge stronger as a result.

...so all you folks giving the author 'advice' - I suggest reading the book to see how it ends before providing guidance.

This excerpt was quite funny. I'll probably buy the book. Then he will make lots of money and go to book signings and meet someone nice.

FWIW - not banging the nanny shows good discretion. Otherwise, he'd be out of the frying pan and into HELL - all for the sake of a quickie...

After 8 years of Bush - four more years of "the Clintons" would be "like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell."

Jobs was talking about giving iTunes to Windows users, but you get the idea...

So what? - nothing is more exploitive of women than the fashion industry.

Its the original business model for generating angst and insecurity in order to generate purchases which do nothing to alleviate angst and insecurity which leads to more purchases intended to alleviate angst and insecurity.

I love a well dressed woman as much as the next hetero male, but there is little real substantive value in a $10,000 dress or $6,000 sweater.

And Posh Spice in this year's Guantanamo colors isn't chic or shocking, it's just tasteless.

Thanks for... nothing!

Obama's getting my vote - in the primary and in the election.

...and keeps on sucking

didn't see yours before I posted mine... great minds run in the same, er, ear canal

... was a 1997 Win Wenders film which examined the implications of a universal surveillance society.

Eight years of the Bush Administration have morphed science fiction into political fact.

The title of the movie referred to the fact that once you are able to strike down 'evildoers' with impunity, it would be the 'end of violence'. A completely safe society:

* WAR IS PEACE

* FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

* IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

Pushbutton war has been replaced by pushbutton justice. A "funny looking" suspect lurking in the shadows can be judged and executed in seconds.

This development should dramatically increase armed forces recruitment - who wouldn‘t want to be on the delivery end of such raw power? It is HALO 3 rendered as virtual actuality.

The Berkeley City Council had better watch out - the next time they think of 'banning' military recruitment within city limits, someone may just drop a house on them, too...

it isn't...

that makes strippers go all warm and fuzzy....

once you go crack, you rarely go back. get out now. you will be doing him and yourself a favor. you'll be lied to, disappointed and disgusted if you don't.

nobody's worth the hell you are going to go through if you don't dump him...

Always great to hear from Glox News. For those of you who don't "get it" - too bad so sad...

If Tom ever comes out with an animated version of TMW, Glox News would leave me rolling on the floor...

It's just too weird. At least there was continuity from last week's episode.

As Grover Norquist might have said, maybe we can shrink interest in this strip down to a size where we can drown it in the bathtub...

I doubt they are going to cancel it...

take the chanting out, it might be ok.

good thing the fall election will be about substance, not style.

Let the right wing hysteria begin!

I lived overseas for 19 years in what I would refer to as the "second world" - you know, the police will let you bleed to death for their amusement, but there is also internet access, and the power stays on for at least 18 hours a day.

When you've lived outside of the US for a while, you become accustomed to a different standard of service and civility. You've opened a foreign P.O. box or bank account, driven your car on the left-hand side of the road, learned to think in euros or pesos instead of dollars, and dealt with "their" immigration authorities.

Such situations are alien to most mainlanders. In order to adjust, you have to mellow out and go with the flow. To paraphrase the Texas Tourism board slogan of years ago, "it's like a whole 'nother planet!"

If you were on an island or in an equatorial zone, there is also the lassitude of mañana - it'll get done when it gets done.

Therefore, when you make the transition from another country back to the United States, I liken it to trying to push through a wall of Jell-o.

After you return, your expectations are skewed. The interstate highways, "customer service" and everyday low prices of mainland North America are an alien concept.

You struggle to understand why things happen so fast, people are so rude, the food seems so strange tasting and nobody says "good morning" with meaning like they did where you just came from.

You seem to be continually confused and frustrated at every turn as you make your way through modern American society (especially when job hunting), until it finally dawns on you: you're not in paradise anymore.

Once this denouement occurs, you are through the wall of Jell-o and have popped out the other side. You are truly "home". This transition can take days, weeks or even longer.

I expect that once the letter writer reaches this epiphany, they too will adjust.

Welcome Back!

. . . but would you give him your car keys?

the zombie that will not die...

one for 1st class - one for everyone else. let the magic of the marketplace work for you!