Category: The Dish

Like I didn’t know that already.

The fabulists keep multiplying. Why don’t they just try fiction? Ross sympathizes with the publishers. I find it hard to feel sympathy with publishers.

Not Larry Cohen’s classic (if you’ve never watched the director’s commentary on that movie, you haven’t, er, lived). No … I mean: Wikileaks!

Watch her go through them all in two and a half minutes.

Did it have less impact than I thought?

A reader writes:

I know that the poll results are currently running 60-40 against comments. But, you haven’t let Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island weigh in on this issue yet.

Moreover, some of those poll result "Nos" came from states like Utah, Idaho, and Montana — states that don’t count. Some of the "Nos" came from Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina where there are lots of African-Americans so that was not fair. Plus, I heard that Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, and Osama bin Laden also voted "No."

On top of it, the Yes" votes have won in California, New York, New Jersey, and Arkansas — states that really matter.

It’s 3am — don’t you trust the "Yes" to keep you safe?

Is this the pet of the future? I hope so. Pigs are extremely intelligent, as emotionally evolved as dogs, and our society’s brutal treatment of them in hog farms is, quite simply, indefensible. I know: I still eat bacon. And I shouldn’t. But the key to protecting these creatures, and improving their treatment, is seeing them as Churchill did. Maybe breeding them into cute pets will help. We’d never treat dogs the way we treat hogs.

Crowley is surely right: what will matter this week, more than the results tonight, will be the attempt to frame them in the coming days. The Clintons will have their work cut out:

I assume we’re going to see a ferocious push by the Obama campaign to create a climate of opinion that demands Hillary’s exit. This hint that he’s about to unveil 50 more superdelegate endorsements is a preview. So is the fact that Obama has waited to release his February fundraising haul, which is expected to top an astonishing $50 million. Party leaders and liberal pundits are going to start hammering on Hillary to get out.

What’s not clear to me is whether her campaign has a persuasive counter argument.

In a strange way, the recent Clinton boomlet could backfire. If she fails to meet expectations, the math – and the interests of the Democrats as a whole – could crush her.

The Republican nominee thinks big.

In handwriting, anyway.