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Hat tip to Cheeky Monkey for this video:

Too damn funny. And too eerily real.

Modern Moist Towelette Collecting

Many individuals have asked me in past years, “Why moist towelette collecting?” “Why not stamp collecting or numismatics?”

Snip.

I must say my true motivation are the towels themselves. Each Moist Towelette is like a work of art. Though working in defined parameters, the designers manage to make each towelette applicable to their customer. A Moist Towelette collection can show restaurants, casinos (and a surprising variety of other locations) from across a continent (or nay, the entire world) in a single, small space.

Despite whatever differences we have as humans, we can all satisfy the natural urge to clean ourselves with lemon-scented, moist-filled napkins.

World peace through moist towelettes?

From Slate:

By endorsing Obama now, Edwards isn’t handing him the nomination. He’s minimizing the damage wrought upon the all-but-inevitable nominee. Clinton insists a drawn-out election isn’t hurting the party. But it is clearly exposing huge holes in each candidate’s armor. By weighing in now, Edwards is reassuring Democrats—and perhaps telegraphing to Kentucky voters—that Obama is a safe choice.

I’m not sure that Edwards has is viewed by most working-class Democrats as some kind of an oracle, but it can’t hurt.

What most struck me about the endorsement was the timing. I think Edwards recently decided to endorse Obama (rather than deciding on the endorsement months ago and waiting for the perfect moment), but I like that it came on the day after the WV primary to minimize Clinton’s bump.

From Yahoo!:

Jenna Bush, daughter of President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush, exchanges wedding vows with Henry Hager in an outdoor ceremony at the Bush family’s Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Rev. Kirbyjohn Caldwell, center, performs the ceremony.

Heh! Too bad Rev. Caldwell already endorsed Obama

Call her, or better yet, spend some time with her, if you can.

She loves you.

When I heard that Clinton said this:

“You know, there was just an AP article posted that found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans is weakening again and how the whites in both states (Indiana and North Carolina) who had not completed college were supporting me and in independents, I was running even with him and doing even better with Democratic-leaning independents. I have a much broader base to build a winning coaltion on.”

I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. Both Clinton and Obama are tired, so sometimes they say things they don’t mean.

But Joe Conason brings up some good points:

But this time she violated the rhetorical rules, no doubt by mistake. It was her offhand reference to “working, hard-working Americans, white Americans” that raises the specter of old Dixie demagogues like Wallace and Lester Maddox. Was she dog-whistling to the voters of Kentucky and West Virginia?

While I still cannot believe she actually intended any such nefarious meaning, she seemed to be equating “hard-working Americans” with “white Americans.” Which is precisely what Wallace and his cohort used to do with their drawling refrain about welfare and affirmative action. This is the grating sound of Richard Nixon’s Southern strategy, even though Tricky Dick would never quite stoop to saying such things in public.

Hard-working, white Americans. Geez. Hillary, are you trying use a Nixonian Southern strategy to increase the bigot vote in WV and KY to give you an even larger win in those primaries? Was that some kind a dog whistle being blown at Appalachian lower-income people to indicate that it’s better to vote for a white woman who supports hard-working white Americans rather than the lazy Black people and people who were fortunate enough to make the effort to get through college?

Oh, and Hillary, you won Indiana by one point in an election day that came on the heels of the Rev. Wright scandal. Limbaugh told his minions to vote for you, and it seems that might have had an effect, since 17 percent of GOPers who voted for Clinton in the Hoosier primary said that they would vote for McCain if Clinton is the Democratic nominee.

Hillary, it’s just sad that if you win the nomination, it’s unlikely that African Americans or those horrible well-educated liberals will support you in great numbers.

We don’t like being insulted.

Jeff Greenfield:

Just watch the whole thing, a Greenfield report from tonight’s CBS news.

Canvassing in Indianapolis - May 3, 2008

I spent my day canvassing for Barack Obama in Indianapolis.

The area in which I canvassed was pretty affluent, because the Obama office in Washington Township randomly assigned us a map and a list of names of people in an area that was supposed to be pro-Obama., or who were Democrat, at the least The time I spent was better than I thought it would be.

Among the 34 people with whom I and my canvassing partner spoke, 20 were definitely going to vote for Obama, 10 were undecided, and four would not say for whom they are going to vote.

The undecideds really were undecided. They were excited that Indiana is actually playing a role in this process, but they admire Obama and Clinton so much that they remain undecided. Part of me thought that the undecideds were perhaps the best Democrats we met as they loved both candidates way too much.

Overall, it was a great experience, and I can’t wait to pound the pavement for Barack tomorrow. I think we can do this.

Which candidate wins Indiana seems to be very much in the air right now. If you’re pro-Obama and live in this state, please volunteer to help Obama win here. If you live in another state, please call some voters in Indiana.

We need your help

Paul Simon - I Know what I Know

Another one of mine.

Some building, Indianapolis, IN. August, 2007