I think "final approach" to Tegucigalpa, Honduras takes about five seconds.

The airport-speak I would like translated, please, is "Maintain visual contact with your personal property at all times."

My S.W.A.G. is that the circle theme crushedHeart points out (and the whole peyote sequence) is just a series of hallucinations that Tony has experienced while gazing at that light on the ceiling. I don't think he actually drove out to the desert to watch the sun rise. He's still on the bathroom floor.

(I don't really want this to be true; the show has way too many dream sequences for my druthers. But it's my theory and I'm sticking to it. Until Sunday.)

Chhabili, I'm sure you are being deliberately facetious, but of course there is a third possibility far more plausible than the ones you posit -- that Senator Obama would indeed support Senator Clinton's candidacy, but that many of the independent and even Republican voters who have supported him in the primaries would refuse to do so. That is what he was talking about, and I have little doubt that he's right.

Senator Clinton's poor performance in caucuses has relatively little to do with demographic differences between her supporters and Senator Obama's. It reflects her failure to plan, prepare, and organize for the caucuses. How much longer will she be able to maintain the illusion that she is a skilled, experienced executive while Senator Obama is untested and green? In the one test of executive ability in which they have competed head-to-head, he has buried her. His campaign has been brilliant.

As for jpetty's charge that Senator Obama is "post-partisan" and has never said he's proud to be a Democrat, this is from his speech tonight in Richmond:

"This is our moment. This is our time for change. Our party – the Democratic Party – has always been at its best when we’ve led not by polls, but by principle; not by calculation, but by conviction; when we’ve called all Americans to a common purpose – a higher purpose.

"We are the party of Jefferson, who wrote the words that we are still trying to heed – that all of us are created equal – that all of us deserve the chance to pursue our happiness.

"We’re the party of Jackson, who took back the White House for the people of this country.

"We’re the party of a man who overcame his own disability to tell us that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself; who faced down fascism and liberated a continent from tyranny.

"And we’re the party of a young President who asked what we could do for our country, and the challenged us to do it.

"That is who we are. That is the Party that we need to be, and can be, if we cast off our doubts, and leave behind our fears, and choose the America that we know is possible. Because there is a moment in the life of every generation, if it is to make its mark on history, when its spirit has to come through, when it must choose the future over the past, when it must make its own change from the bottom up.

"This is our moment. This is our message – the same message we had when we were up, and when we were down. The same message that we will carry all the way to the convention. And in seven months time we can realize this promise; we can claim this legacy; we can choose new leadership for America. Because there is nothing we cannot do if the American people decide it is time."

Locally grown flowers do still exist. I have never seen a certified farmers' market that did not have at least one stall selling them. (In February, the locally grown flowers may not be roses, but if she insists on flown-in roses for V-Day, dump her.)

I still remember when Delta swallowed up Northeast Airlines; that's when Delta first moved into New England. I miss the Northeast "Yellowbirds" that used to fly to Florida.

I loved the paragraph about folks thinking of Paris while scraping snow and going to work. Reminded me of the "Mom's passport" scene in "Breaking Away" -- one of my favorites.

The Cozy Suites look interesting -- for one thing, it looks like they would reduce the problem of having to share your seat with the overly large person next to you. But I don't see how they make aisle access easy for window seat pax. It looks like getting to the aisle would be even more difficult.

Landing at TGU is a definite E-ticket. Get a window seat on the left-hand side!

Senator Clinton was 99% of the way to losing Senator Byrd's support the day she voted for the Iraq war, which he vehemently and eloquently opposed. Most of the where-did-she-go-wrong analyses of her campaign start with tactical decisions made in 2007, but she made her biggest single mistake in 2003.

Fossil fuel prices aren't rising because we are running out of the stuff, at least not yet. They're rising because worldwide demand is increasing. So even though US airlines may do less flying, that's just because other fuel users (many of which are in other countries) are buying and burning the oil -- not necessarily more efficiently. I don't see the positive effect on climate change.

One of the powerful declarations submitted to the San Francisco Superior Court in the first stage of the California litigation was not from a gay or lesbian persion but from a mother -- Chinese-American, I think -- who expressed feelings like this. The gist was "my friends don't know what a civil union is. They've never heard of domestic partnership. I want to tell them my daughter is married."

Congratulations, Keef and Wifey!

(But really, this cartoon should have had a not-safe-for-lunch-break warning. Yikes.)