Category: The Dish

Jen Rubin:

All those suspicions about her preference for a potential one-term McCain presidency rather than a two-term Obama one are only going to increase with comments like this.

Well, how conveenient.

Forget the small fact of my place of birth. I just ordered three vanilla petite scones at Starbucks. If that doesn’t make me an elite snooty pansy-ass un-American commie terrorist-lover, what would?

George Packer on the situation in Burma:

Burma used to be the world’s largest exporter of rice; after decades of military misrule, it now has trouble feeding itself. When I was there in February, I heard that some peasants were surviving on one meal a day, and a knowledgeable woman spoke of the conditions that might lead to famine. Now the danger is far more real—thousands of villagers have no food or water, and reports of hunger are widespread. So the already unimaginable death toll could increase considerably with starvation and disease.

More here.

Laura McClure sorts through dispatches from Burma, while Robert Kaplan wonders if the disaster makes overthrowing Burma’s military regime any more likely.

A legal argument supporting lunar property rights.

Larison argues that Obama can’t make inroads in either West Virginia or Kentucky and says Obama should act like those primaries aren’t happening. I don’t agree. The last thing Obama needs now is overconfidence or arrogance. The Clintons are always at their most dangerous when on the ropes.

The bluebells are blooming in the Sussex woodlands around my home-town in England. I grew up in this dank beauty, and my dad took some photos today to remind me of what was my childhood playground:

How to run a doomed campaign.

"The race is close to over. If Mrs Clinton chooses to drag it out, it is hard to see how she could continue later than May 20th. By then, three more states will have voted: Kentucky, West Virginia and Oregon. The first two are strong for her, the last for him, but they are all too small to matter now," – The Economist.