Overheard in the Continental Lounge of the Harbor Court Hotel, Baltimore, late-night March 2: Kerry: “…and so then I said, ‘Tonight the message could not be clearer all across our country: Change is coming to America. I

Wow, things sure are messy in here, what with all the broken and outdated links, the dry-rotting CSS foundation, the nest of silverfish clustered in one corner of the site code, just behind my old Hoover upright and a rusty, mold-throated mini-fridge (whose half-open door reveals a single untouched Rolling Rock longneck and the dessicated husk of a grapefruit half). Man, is there anything more poignant than a solitary longneck