A gloomy morning, but the cherry blossoms are definitely close to peaking.
And if I say so, not a bad shot given I just pulled my PowerShot out of my pocketbook and rolled down my car window while waiting for the light at 15th and Independence!

A quick lunchtime blog so that I can bookmark this post from Ali Eteraz on HuffPo re Obama. Ali suggests that we should vote for Obama because he is Nietzschean:

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher. In the nineteenth century he predicted that over the next two centuries, the philosophy of nihilism — purposelessness and despair [...]

I may be an Obama fan, but this made me go ouch: Clinton Pursuing ‘The Tonya Harding Option’:

The delegate math is difficult for Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, the official said. But it’s not a question of CAN she achieve it. Of course she can, the official said.
The question is — what will Clinton have to [...]

So I was watching Hardball tonight, and heard Michael Smerconish talk very positively about Barack Obama’s book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.
The paperback is just $9, so I went ahead and sent it to my younger sister, who is leaning towards Clinton. I’d send it to my Dad, but [...]

Like Liz, I was bummed after March 4th. More so when I talked to a colleague in the biz whose take was that Hillary had the nomination. Yikes.
I’m feeling hopeful again. And I really, really hope that my peeps in PA show that it is more like Wisconsin than Ohio. We’ll see. I consider it [...]

I’ve been reading the litany of “why I’m for Obama” or “why I’m for Clinton” posts on HuffPo for weeks now, and this one really resonated for me. So it was funny to find out it was written by the actor who played/plays Charlotte’s hubby on the Sex and the City series/movie.
In I Can’t [...]