politics as usual & other miscellaneous happenings

More on the Spitzer debacle:
A Fall From White Knight to Client 9
Eliot Spitzer's Monumental Fall From Grace

Here's to hoping Salon's Robert Shapiro and the New York Times' Ron Klain are correct in their primary season analyses.

In a shout out to Kayley, my bestest friend way back in Oakland in the late '70s -- I knew California rocked but I didn't necessarily know the California Supreme Court rocked. Apparently it does.

If you find yourself wondering, sometimes, why we need to continue to fight for gay rights, take a minute to listen to Sally Kern, an Oklahoma state legislator, waxing poetic about the absolute evil of the homosexual agenda, about how gays are worse than terrorists, and about how gays are now, apparently, going after 2-year olds -- off the record, of course, or so she thought.

William Kristol, part of the conservative bloc on the NYTimes Opinion pages, thinks that McCain would do well by asking Clarence Thomas to be his running mate. Given that he accused a black woman of instigating a "high-tech lynching" against him when she dared accuse him of sexual harassment (after all, what's a little pubic hair on a soda can between friends?), can you imagine his response to a negative presidential campaign ad?

On a more humorous note, the Worst Publishing Week Ever.