This will be brief. A diary on the rec list about McCain and Sturgis had some comments that were misogynist to the nth degree. Okay, there will always be those who don't think before they post. I get it. But...

YOU ARE ALL WIMPS AND APPEASERS AND HAVE FAILED TO HEED MY WARNINGS! You and this country all going to hell in a handbasket!!!

It's quite simple, really. You don't need to do lots of painstaking, time-consuming research. (Some go that route but it really isn't necessary. Save yourself the effort.) You don't even have to be a good writer. (Semi-literate will do.) All that's needed is--

Are we still split? And by that I mean something either more or less than the Obama/Hillary division prior to Sen. Clinton's concession speech.

The knives are out. Now that it seems that the primary will be over by next week according to Dean and Pelosi, the anti-Obama forces have pulled a new ersatz scandal out of their hats.

Yup, it's finally happened. Hillary will be interviewed on The Factor by Bill O'Reilly on Faux.

David Sirota has written an excellent, eye-opening article about Hillary's strategy of hammering on the race issue and her ever-shifting firewalls. Here is the link: http://davidsirota.com/...

Sheila Jackson Lee, US congresswoman, 18th District of Texas, was booed by her constituents at the local Democratic senatorial district convention in Houston Saturday. She is a Hillary supporter.

So, we've got a document dump from Sen. Clinton. But how revelatory or pertinent are these documents? Not very, according to Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball of Newsweek. http://www.newsweek.com/...

This is a quickie. Two news items I came across this morning that are somewhat worrisome to Obama supporters like myself. And I'd like some feedback.

I love the clever quip, the sparkling epigram, the pointed jab. Do you?

She may have won Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island. But according to Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, the numbers are actually looking worse for her. http://www.newsweek.com/...

Hillary Clinton's chief strategist and campaign adviser is a pollster by the name of Mark Penn, author of the book, Microtrends. John Edwards likened him to Karl Rove. http://abcnews.go.com/...

Music moves us. It motivates, it inspires. Here is a quick overview of the anthems that have helped to launch people-powered movements. (And isn't it usually the masses, the everyday folk, who lead the movements and who are always a step ahead of the politicians?)

Some interesting buzz about Hillary Clinton refusing to release her tax returns. Obama has released his, and has raised the issue with the NY senator.

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all...

Considering the current news cycle, I will immediately state that those lines were penned by Emily Dickinson, lest I get accused of plagiarism.

Being an insomniac, I sometimes spend the wee hours reading those little-seen diaries that gradually descend below the sidebar as the sun slowly ascends outside the window.  

There's a fascinating article appearing in "The Atlantic" about the firing of Solis Doyle. And yes, it was a firing, not a resignation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/...