of rote memorization.

Before we get too far away from the issue — or the Rev. Wright does something to return it to the front burner – I note that TNR’s Noam Scheiber revisited the question of why Barack Obama joined the Trinity United Church of Christ in the first instance.  Having already addressed this question — based in part on a March 19, 2007 TNR profile of  Obama — I note that Scheiber’s

The latest numbers from Public Policy Polling and SurveyUSA suggest that Barack Obama’s youth appeal is eroding in North Carolina, though he still has a commanding lead over Hillary Clinton with that demographic.  The PPP numbers are more dramatic, but I generally take that firm’s numbers with a grain of salt, for a variety of reasons.  Those numbers would be consistent with his narrow loss of the white youth vote in Pennsylvania,

Legless lizard. Heh. Dwarf . . . bwahahahaha! Scientists discovered legless lizard, a dwarf woodpecker and another 12 suspected new species in Brazil’s fast-disappearing Cerrado grasslands, an environmental group said Tuesday. The local term for such grasslands being the pantpas. None of these is quite as mind-boggling, however, as the multisock organism that emits such high-pitched squeals on the intartubes, known as the Tender-Assed Gleen.

Updating a prior post, Democratic Senate candidate Al Franken owes $70,000 in back taxes in 17 states, where he earned income going back to 2003. Someone get a limo for the lamo. (h/t Memeorandum.)

As nishi predicted yesterday evening (h/t Pableau): “The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago,” Obama said of the man who married him. Which is tough, but I can see why Andrew’s so gung-ho. Hahaha. Yeah, easy, I know. On the other hand, Wright has made a serious case to be considered for the position of Jester to the POTUS, if you can

As occasionally noted, some endorsements matter beyond the momentary flicker they create on television screens and computer monitors.  Is North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton today as big a deal as Ben Simth and David Paul Kuhn suggest at the Politico? Typically, an endorser can provide contacts, fundraising and even organization to an endorsee.  Smith & Kuhn note that is not the case here: Easley doesn’t bring the kind

illustrates ideological struggle.

Steyn vivisects Her Grievousness.

These committed fighters for human rights have been dealt a terrible, unforeseen public relations blow.  It is true that the people in question are Austrian, so naturally many Germans will deny that such a thing could happen in their country. I question the timing.