Scientific breakthroughs of the day: briefs that monitor your blood pressure and a solar powered bra.
Category: The Dish
Malkin Award Nominee
"Ask your county clerk if they were a Nazi officer during WWII and had been ordered to gas the Jews, would they? At the Nuremberg trials, they would have been convicted of murder for following this immoral order," – anti-gay group Save California on county clerks issuing marriage licenses to gay couples.
See You There
The Democratic convention is powered by Coors.
Laura And Jenna And Ellen
Two of the more gay-friendly members of the First Family are getting less leery of showing it. Jenna should give Ellen some wedding tips, don’t you think?
Hillary for SCOTUS?? Ctd.
Dahlia Lithwick throws more cold water. I certainly don’t think Obama should run on appointing her to SCOTUS in advance. But if he’s president, dealing with the Clintons, finding a way to neutralize them, will be a priority. Putting her on the court gets rid of her from elective politics.
Ickes On Michigan
He wants the "uncommitted" to stay "uncommitted", denying Obama any delegates from Michigan because Obama played by the rules. No one ever said the Clintons believe in fairness.
A Smart Car Monster Truck
Americana and environmentalism collide.
The View From Your Window
Lincoln, Nebraska, 10.10 am.
The Stomach Lurches
Brendan Loy’s two cents:
She appears to be racheting up her rhetoric to the point where, if the Rules & Bylaws Committee does anything other than seat the Florida and Michigan delegations with full voting rights and in complete accordance with the rogue primary results, she can declare that decision an anti-democratic outrage that must be remedied, irrespective of its significance to the nomination battle, and thus use it as an excuse to keep fighting all the way to the convention, even after Obama secures the nomination by any and all mathematical standards (whether the magic number is 2,025 or 2,210). In this scenario, Hillary would most likely "suspend" her campaign, but refrain from endorsing Obama or "releasing" her delegates, and then lie in wait for the next three months, hoping some political calamity befalls him in the mean time, at which point she can sweep in like a "white knight" and take the nomination away from him.
Ooookaaayy
One of the things we’ve learned during the Democratic primary battle is that Hillary’s victories are bullish for stocks and Obama’s wins are bearish.
The clearest example was Hillary’s massive West Virginia victory. Stocks opened strong the following day. But after Obama’s big North Carolina win, a night he nearly carried Indiana, stocks opened way down.
Even though Hillary clocked Obama in Kentucky, since Obama took Oregon convincingly, he really carried last night’s elections and now stands on the verge of gaining the Democratic nomination. Not surprisingly, stocks opened down 80 points this morning.
Markets don’t like Obama.
