I agree with the other comments saying no plants and no fictional excuses. Just politely tell your neighbor that the space is not for rent and that you intend to keep it for the use of your own guests. Then put up a sign:

Private Parking Space

Unauthorized Vehicles Will Be Towed

at Owners Expense. No Exceptions.

After that, if someone parks there, well, have 'em towed.

Quoting your entry "In 2000, Clinton was still first lady, and vying for an open Senate seat in New York with then-Congressman Rick Lazio. Lazio entered the race in May of 2000..."

So...April 15th (which last I looked is filing day unless it falls on a Sunday or federal holiday in which case you typically get to file a day later) is before May. And Clinton's current return is due on April 15th. And in the meantime, Hillary has to file public disclosures of income because she holds a seat in the US Senate.

Does anyone think there will be some sort of smoking gun in Hillary Clinton's tax returns? Really? And if there is, wouldn't the recent pledge to release these returns around April 15th when the most current return is due amount to political suicide? That would give opponents a week to comb through her tax filing with a fine tooth come, devoting as much staff as it took to do so, and hammer her relentlessly in the week before the Pennsylvania primary.

On this "issue", there seems to be no there, there.

This was a fine article until the author could hold back his bias no more and exposed it in all its ugliness in the last paragraph which was unsupported, clumsy, ill considered and partisan. It's like the effect of a mere teaspoon of raw sewage on a glass of sweet iced tea. But good try.

You've just chosen a post from a campaign thread wherein a passionate Obama supporter claims that anyone who disagrees with his premise ("Anyone who continues to judge Barack Obama in the reflected light of Reverend Jeremiah Wright is guilty of racism.") is a racist.

I disagree with the poster and I am no racist.

This is NOT post of the week material. Come on, Salon! Surely out of the thousands and thousands of weekly posts on Table Talk, you can do better than this.

First, this is a political campaign where one of two Dems is going to have to face John McCain. The gas tax thing may be pandering, but you can bet your sweet bippie that some folks on the edge will vote based on who supports the idea of saving them a few pennies.

Two, if you think the above is wrong and that people won't vote for someone because of the gas tax holiday proposal, just think about the way many people will drive for miles to save a nickel a gallon right now.

The gas tax holiday may not be good policy, but it's damn smart politics. Give the issue to McCain at the peril of losing the election.

What can I say? I thought that the ad was just pure funny. It was sorta like a JibJab video and it was obviously not meant to be taken seriously. Lighten up and have some laughs.

I've run the math time and time again. I see no way that Obama wins in Florida, Ohio or Pennsylvania and without at least two of those three in his column on election day, there is no path to 270 electoral votes and therefore no path to the presidency.

Obama also stands zero chance in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky, Louisiana and Arizona.

Mr. Maslin in right when he points out that Minnesota is not the reliably Democratic state that it once was. Many Dems on the national level are behind the times in there perception on this one. Many Dems in Minnesota are just wet from living in De Nile. If Minnesota votes for the "Straight Talk Express", it's all over.

Michigan? I don't know what to make of Michigan, especially with the "you don't count and I won't make any exceptions" stance of the Obama campaign on the primary. But Michigan is also not the reliable Dem state that it once was. A McCain win here would not surprise me.

As inspiring as Obama may be to those who support him, the fact is that the perception among his supporters that he is inspiring to everyone (or even the overwhelming choice of Democrats in the primaries) is simply not supportable with anything like facts.

If someone can show me an Obama path -- a reasonably realistic path -- to victory in the electoral college without Ohio, Pennsylvania or Florida, I'd like to see it.

I've tried to make clear to many that my opposition to Barack Obama (forgetting the minor quibbles over healthcare mandates or the Social Security "crisis") simply boils down to this: I do not believe that Barack Obama stands a snow ball's chance in hell of winning a general election versus John McCain. If Obama is the Democratic nominee, McCain is the next president. Simple as that.