Is Ralph Nader trying to use reverse psychology to get Clinton to drop out of the race? He recently wrote a letter to Clinton urging her to stay and fight to the bitter end. Presumably, he also thinks she should run as an independent after she loses at the convention. Katha Pollitt translates the letter […]

From MSNBC:
Using data from a 2002 national survey, researchers found that among more than 1,700 unmarried, heterosexual teens between 15 and 19 years old, those who’d received comprehensive sex ed in school were 60 percent less likely to have been pregnant or gotten someone pregnant than teens who’d had no formal sex education.
Meanwhile, there was […]

Now Joe Scarborough wants people to base their votes on which candidate can get the best bowling score:

The thing is, Americans want their president, if it’s a man, to be a real man. They — 1984, I remember Ronald Reagan goes to South Boston. He holds up that beer mug in that South Boston pub, […]

From Politico:
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles.
A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for […]

…and brings him out of a coma.

…we’ll stand down. But that’s not going to be for quite some time.
Maybe this is why McCain thinks we need to stay in Iraq for the next 1,000 years.

Rhonda Stroms and her fellow Republicans in Florida legislature, AKA The Flat Earth Society, is pushing a bill that would allow teachers to “present scientific information relevant to the full range of views on biological and chemical origins.”
What that means in practical terms is that schools and universities will not be allowed to bar […]

…if Yahoo and Microsoft weren’t publishing “most wanted” posters online.

Examining the candidates’ spending and tax policies, Lori Montgomery of the Washington Post said that “of the three candidates, budget analysts said McCain has been most aggressive at identifying ways to reduce spending.”
One problem with that analysis: it doesn’t include war spending. To pretend that McCain is a fiscal hawk by ignoring the money he […]

To tell you the truth, I have no idea why the site’s format suddenly evaporated. I had assumed that LA was working on it, and that things would go back to normal when he was done. When nothing happened for a full day, I just reverted to a previous format for the site,which is reasonably […]