Hillary is done. Go to bed. Barack Obama is going to be president and he is black and that is worth noting and I hope he does not get shot at.

I mean just look at last names.

Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
Ford
Carter
Reagan
Bush
Clinton
Bush
Obama

My first "live blog" since the lunar eclipse:

Obama is going to win Indiana! Win Indiana, Obama! Please! PLeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaasse!!!


1158: Hillary 50.9, Obama 49.1

91% reporting

FUCKING SHIT!!

Update 1208am

I think what this map means is that Hillary won many counties, but only by small margins, and Obama's wins were fewer, but greater at the county level.

If Obama takes it Hillary must drop out. She must. I am so sick of her. I hate it. Anybody else would have dropped out by now. Bill Clinton in 92 would have dropped out.

I will drink the Jonestown Koolaid if Obama does not take it. (more below)
1243: Hillary 50.7, Obama 49.3

95% reporting.

I think I will give Obama money when I get paid on Friday even though I will have none. Seriously. This is too important. I do not want historians to look back on this election and lament about how fucking stupid we were.

This is the most excited I have been about Barack Obama since I was in a high school gymnasium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa the night before the caucuses (and I told Obama that I was from New Hampshire and that I was going to vote for Kucinich but not any more and I attempted to shake his hand and he hugged me said "that means a lot to me, it really does" I had a purple tie on the end).

And the superdelegates are now where the fight is moving: after 50 nominating contests, there are only 6 left, with just 217 pledged delegates left to be elected, not enough to get either of them over the 2,025 threshold necessary to win the nomination.

[NYT]

Indiana has an open primary which means republicans can vote in the democratic primary and while I am sick as shit of this shit, I am wondering what that means for the outcome.

He told the K.S.U. students that their country was “deep in a malaise of the spirit” and suffering from “a deep crisis of confidence”—the kinds of phrases that no politician has dared utter since President Carter was pilloried for speaking of a national “crisis of confidence” during his notorious “malaise speech,” in which he never used the word “malaise.”

Before returning to the Kansas City airport, the Kennedy press corps stopped for a quick restaurant meal. Jimmy Breslin asked a table of reporters, “Do you think this guy has the stuff to go all the way?”

“Yes, of course he has the stuff to go all the way,” John J. Lindsay replied. “But he’s not going to go all the way. The reason is that somebody is going to shoot him. I know it and you know it. Just as sure as we’re sitting here somebody is going to shoot him. He’s out there now waiting for him And, please God, I don’t think we’ll have a country after it.”

[Vanity Fair]

If the set list looks like this in August, I will be very pleased.

Not derp:

Too soon and tooooo expensive.
Seriously.
Who is going to buy a 45 dollar book about the 2008 primaries? I would rather marinate Mike "Get AIDS and Die" Savage's book in Labatt Blue, put it in between a couple glazed donuts dipped in tabasco sauce, light the whole thing on fire, and then eat it every day until I am collecting social security scraps.

DERP

Here is what is wrong with the world. Kids on the other side of the world are able to get Winnie the Pooh t shirts but lack adequate food safety/health care/human rights. Fuck you, Tom Friedman.

Colossal Squid Blog!!!

The colossal squid specimen weighs 1,000 pounds, has 11 inch eyes--the largest of any animal--and has ovaries.
Do squid have their period?
Discuss.