A visitor peeks into the window of the newly-inaugurated memorial to homosexual victims of the Nazis on May 27, 2008 in Berlin, Germany. The memorial, a large stone with a window that looks onto an image of two men kissing, commemorates the tens of thousands of gays imprisoned by the Nazis, including the estimated 15,000 sent to concentration camps. The memorial stands in the Tiergarten park close to the Holocaust Memorial. By Sean Gallup/Getty Images.
That’s the name of a paint color in a British catalog for upscale home improvement. Sometimes a post-pubescent Englishman is the only person to consult on these matters. Seriously, a star is born.
A vintage birthday cake photo group.
(hat tip: Sheila Ryan)
Jeffrey Goldberg was dumb enough to put a movie script in front of a man who plans his vacation packing down to the last sock.
Some surprising resistance to the Kentucky senator in his home state. I wonder if the anti-incumbent mood in some part of the, er, Appalachian-style states might lead more voters to vote Democrat in the down-ticket races this fall. If they have to vote for McCain to keep the, er, "liberal" out of office, maybe they’ll feel more comfortable voting for a Democrat in the House and Senate. Just thinking out loud …
John Hinderaker argues that we are safer thanks to Bush; he says there were no successful attacks "against American interests abroad" between 2004 and 2008. But Iraq and Afghanistan do not count.
A music video made up of samples from Disney’s "Alice In Wonderland" remixed and set to … a trippy version of Disney’s "Alice in Wonderland". Oddly captivating:
A reader writes:
Hagel is bad at being a politician. He says what he thinks, and he is often abrasive. He doesn’t care very much about being popular, or making allies. He’s pretty unpopular in Nebraska now — it was widely believed that if he had stood for reelection, he would have lost. He wouldn’t be able to deliver his home state for Obama, either. (Not that Nebraska’s 5 electoral college votes are that vital.)
A VP is really a political deputy. His role in the campaign is to take the hard shots at the other side. If Hagel disagreed with Obama on a tax issue, for example, he’d say so. He wouldn’t be able to go out and sell it. And there would be lots and lots of those disagreements.
It wouldn’t work at all.
Sources close to the [Obama] campaign estimate that as many as three dozen Democratic superdelegates have privately pledged to announce their support for Obama on June 4 or 5. The campaign is determined that Obama not end the first week in June without securing the support of delegates numbering 2026 — or 2210, as the case may be.
A reader gets it:
If people paid more attention, they’d see that the campaign is building a case that Hillary won the popular vote, and thus, even though by the rules of the Party she does not get the nomination, she is the "people’s favorite" and thus the rightful nominee.
There is no better way to depress white working class (women’s) turnout in Nov. then to leave them with the sense that the nomination was somehow "stolen" from Hillary.
And if they can help defeat Obama in the fall, they lie in wait for 2012.
