Tomorrow is officially Earth Day, a holiday for Gaia worshippers traditionally marked by obligatory cover stories in TIME and Newsweek.  This is particularly true in an election year, as both magazines run their usual campaigns on the crisis of global warming. Yet a March NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found only 4% of respondents said they thought “the environment and global warming” should be the federal government’s top priority.  The latest Gallup poll shows that

ad f*cking nauseum. Summary.  Blah blah gendered blah blah gender blah blah. (h/t thor)

The things that women will do these days, the torture they’ll endure, to have the bubble-butt that comes naturally to Enoch.  I swear, I never thought it would turn out to be such an object of envy.  Lucky bastid.  He’s practically a Brazilian model.

I was unaware of this, but frequent commenter Nuke ‘m Hill has a post up about his dad, who died a couple of weeks ago.  He’s feeling the loss of consortium rather keenly, though our conversations with our fathers never really end, even if one has to play both sides of the chessboard.

At Salon, Andrew O’Hehir tries to figure out where Barack Obama may fit in the tradition of Democratic losers dating back to Adlai Stevenson — and examines the cyclical battles between “establishment” and “insurgent” candidates – concluding that the fault lies not in the candidates, but in the party’s members: It isn’t flippant or metaphorical to describe the Democratic Party as schizophrenic. The ugly flame wars conducted between Obama and Clinton supporters

Top John McCain aide Mark Salter, rebutting a Washington Post story about Maverick’s legendary temper, observes in passing: McCain routinely refers to people and colleagues as “boy.” He does to me, to Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman, and almost everybody. It’s like saying hey, buddy. He means nothing by it. Uh-huh.  That’s not a timebomb waiting to explode in a general election campaign against Barack Obama.  Not at all.  There is