On the bright side, though, no embarrassing tan lines. My being a shut-in and all. So there’s that.

Mike Huckabee won two of the weekend’s three contests, and is contesting the third.  John McCain’s margin over Huckabee in Virginia has shrunk from 32 points to 11 points over the weekend.  That is probably not enough momentum to beat McCain tomorrow, but it is now possible that the de facto GOP nominee may not win a majority of the vote there. Mike Huckabee has not changed in the past week or

If “You Think Darwin Sounds Like A Nazi, There Is A Connection” I’m hoping SEK will pick this up, since I haven’t any time at all, but suffice it to say that Darwin’s theory, like any powerful theory, is subject to perversion in the hands of the unscrupulous for political purposes.  Darwin’s insight was the result of his having an extraordinarily open mind; it is sheer perversion to turn that

Regular PW readers know I like to highlight organization stories, as the media tends to gloss over them as boring.  But Marc Ambinder has some tidbits in his account of the flailing Clinton campaign worth wider exposure: A lack of money is the main reason why the Clinton campaign failed to organize well enough in smaller caucus states like Minnesota, Colorado and Maine. It’s not that the demographics of these

Ok, it’s not so much a lesson as an observation.  I have a new employee in my department at work.  She’s not a great beauty, but she’s a reasonably attractive woman in her 40’s.  I say that only because it has a bearing on what’s to follow.  She’s very nice, and I like her a lot, but she has a little problem with personal hygiene.  I don’t know how often

I don’t have a point.  I just wanted to say it.

Over the past few days, the media is returning to a theme floated periodically since the Iowa caucuses, put succinctly by CNN: Though the fate of the Democratic race to the nomination remains uncertain, one thing is for sure: voters are turning out for the Democratic primaries in number that absolutely shatter previous records — which may be a troubling sign for Republicans looking ahead to the general election. CQ

as reported earlier, by Karl, Republicans create their own. Well played, fellows. Ted Olson at WSJ on the prospects for a lawyered convention: What splendid theater the Democratic Party presidential nominating process is shaping up to be. And they are just getting started. The real fun would be a convention deadlock denouement a few months from now, the prospect of which is already quickening the pulses of scores of Democratic

insists Obama will be assassinated if elected, unless subservient to Miss Daisy, thus projecting her racism onto Americans:  If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday. Obama, who is vying to become the first black president in US history, “would certainly not last long, a black man in the position of

If you haven’t been stringent about boycotting Citgo, now would be the time to begin. You can make it your Lenten resolution if you like: President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions of dollars in Venezuelan assets.”If you end up freezing (Venezuelan assets) and it harms us, we’re going to harm you,”