and your opportunity to express, in fewer than 500 words, why you don’t care.

So doth the Astronomer looke upon the starres, and by that he seeth set downe what order nature hath taken therein. So doth the Geometritian & Arithmetitian, in their divers sorts of quantities. So doth the Musitians intimes tel you, which by nature agree, which not. The natural Philosopher thereon hath his name, and the morall Philosopher standeth uppon the naturall vertues, vices, or passions of man: and follow nature

The video is at the HuffPo, along with a whole lot of horrified Obamaniacs. Not a bad start, though she might want to crib from the faux ads that have run on Rush Limbaugh’s program.

From William Kern at The Moderate Voice:  One of the most disturbing questions that Barack Obama’s candidacy raises is this: What if he were murdered? If Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination and was gunned down before November, what effect would this have on the presidential race? In this uncomfortable op-ed from Mexico’s Excelsior newspaper, Francisco Martín Moreno outlines what he sees as the danger to the United States and the rest

Dan Gerstein, a Democratic strategist supporting Barack Obama for president, submits a bizzare column to the Politico: Over the last few weeks, the euphoria Democrats felt over the embarrassment of riches we have for presidential candidates has given way to befuddlement over the embarrassment of a process we have for nominating one of them. Can’t tell the difference between (or the rationales for) a caucus and a primary? No worries: Just

Beneath the surface of Barack Obama’s 10-0 run of primary and caucus victories over Hillary Clinton, a counter-current to the tide of Obama-mania has been developing.  It goes back as least as far as Dahlia Lithwick’s “letter from a young, hip, cynical former Obamaniac” in Slate, followed the next day by John Dickerson asking: Isn’t the generation that Obama has so successfully courted usually the first to toss overhyped products, even the overhyped

McClatchy’s David Lightman, for one: Hillary Clinton apparently thought that she had a killer sound bite during Thursday’s debate when she ripped Barack Obama as a promoter of “change your can Xerox.” Instead, the audience booed, critics winced and once again the New York senator’s attempt to demonize her rival fell flat, another illustration of how 2008, at least so far, is the year that negative campaigning just doesn’t work

Disillusionment: Asked in Ohio by a reporter if he would be treated differently had he lost as many contests as Clinton, Obama said, “Yes.” But Obama said he understands why the treatment is different, saying it would require a knockout blow for Clinton to quit because she’s “part of the Democratic network in Washington.” “Look, I’m the challenger, I’m the upstart,” he said. “I’m the insurgent — she’s, she’s the

Kirk James Murphy, MD at Firedoglake:  They’re baaaack! Yep – another post on Frankenfoods – the miserable mutant offspring of ancient crops…and the white-coat rapists from Biotech who jam alien species’ DNA into the germplasm of our familiar staples. Reagan/Bush and Grover’s Club For Greed paved the way – or more accurately, pulverised the institutions – by destroying the Federal research funding which ensured America’s basic science led the world

Mmmmm.  But Café Britt is not welcome on the Fairtrade scheme. Most of Café Britt’s farmers are self-employed small businesspeople who own the land they farm. This is wholly unacceptable to the rigid ideologues at FLO International, Fairtrade’s international certifiers, who will only accredit the farmers if they give up their small business status and join together into a co-operative. “It’s like outlawing private enterprise,” says Dan Cox, former head