Maureen Dowd
New York Times
He’s never going to shake her off.
Not all by himself.
The very fact that he can’t shake her off has become her best argument against him. “Why can’t he close the deal?” Hillary taunted at a polling place on Tuesday.
She’s been running ads about it, suggesting he doesn’t have “what it takes” to [...]

CNN dot com has a feature that I just discovered (maybe its been there a while, I dunno).  On the main page there are headlines and next to the ones that have video with them is a little video camera icon.  Next to some of them is a t-shirt icon.  So I clicked one.  It [...]

I’m going to see Bruce Springsteen at the 28th and then Lou Reed on the 29th. I’m giddy.
Update: Lots of super rock. Both shows were awesome. Then I saw Superchunk and Arcade Fire on the following Thursday do a free show in Greensboro to support Obama. I’m still resting up…

Every time I try to do my own taxes, I end up owing the government money.  To be clear, I live far below the poverty line.  I take on huge debt through student loans every year.  I have no idea why I have to pay taxes.  The tax system is total bullshit.

The CBS News-New York Times poll released Thursday showed 81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track.” That was up from 69 percent a year ago, and 35 percent in early 2002. Read more
In a political climate like this one, where a majority of people are [...]