I have to say that my life now is not really that much different from many of yours. I wake up every morning wondering how on earth I am going to pull off that next minor miracle to get through the day. I know that everybody in this room is going through this. That is the dilemma women face today. Every woman that I know, regardless of race, education, income,
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National Intelligence Estimate [Dan Collins]
It appears that the national intelligence may be overestimated: New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an atomic bomb by the end of this year.   Read the rest. UPDATE: More from Hot Air
TNR: Publication Capped “Intense Internal Deliberations” At The [Dan Collins]
NYT. Publication capped “intense internal deliberations” at TNR. Unrelated: “I want you to picture Johansson,” McCormick writes in the Daily Telegraph, “curled up on a sofa in a subterranean studio, soft and gorgeous in a sort of indie pin-up way; long platinum blonde hair; huge, blue fawnish eyes; voluptuously indecent red lips; slender but curvaceous frame…”  At which point the reader might suspect a flattering review. Not the case, sadly.
Dems 2008: The Clinton disorganization [Karl]
Although it appears that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign may be settling on a strategy of emphasizing her proposals to help the middle class and the perception that she is better qualified to be commander-in-chief than Sen. Barack Obama, two news articles further examine how disorganization has brought the Clinton campaign to the brink of oblivion. The L.A. Times reports on how strategist Mark Penn has fought Harold Ickes and other advisors over
Bamalot! [Dan Collins]
BARRY: It’s true! It’s true! The crown has made it clear. The climate must be perfect all the year. A law was made a distant moon ago here: July and August cannot be too hot. And there’s a legal limit to the snow here In Bamalot. The winter is forbidden till December And exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer lingers through September In Bamalot. Bamalot! Bamalot!
a post that explores what life might be like if oatmeal could speak, 14
oatmeal: “Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: the Cream of Wheat guy — in addition to helping sex up farina for the masses — was a damn fine jazz musician. “I mean, queer as a chocolate cupcake, sure. Used to like to dress up like Ella Fitzgerald and pee sitting down, in fact. But man, could he ever blow! ” — On the sax, that is. And before you
Tidbits [Dan Collins]
A cell phone image of one of the heads viewed by The Associated Press was inconclusive. Headline of the Day: Suspect in Murder of UK Model Regrets Sex With Dead Body in Driveway A beyonder shade of pale. The link between alcohol and aggression is well known. What’s not so clear is just why drunks get belligerent. What is it about the brain-on-alcohol that makes fighting seem like a good
Election 2008: Obama comes out [Karl]
Dark Lord Karl Rove notes that Sen. Barack Obama’s post-Wisconsin, policy-oriented speech provides an entree for his Democratic and Republican rivals to attack: Until now, Mr. Obama has been making appeals to the center, saying, for example, that we are not red or blue states, but the United States. But in his Houston speech, he used the opportunity of 45 (long) minutes on national TV to advocate a distinctly non-centrist,
