the prodigal daughter

hi guys. i'm in a blog-updating mood, probably because i'm procrastinating on a huge work project and i'm caught up on all my scrabulous games.

1) i'm beginning to think that hillary's taking a dive. like, really taking a dive. what could she be thinking? after wisconsin i thought that maybe she finally understood that the negative campaigning was a) not succeeding in making obama look bad and b) making her look even worse. but apparently, that lesson hasn't been learned.

then comes the debate. first she repeats these outrageous plagiarism accusations (and then closed just a few minutes later with an almost word-for-word quotation from one of bill's 1992 campaign speeches). then she continues this ridiculous "all talk, no action" meme. THEN, today, she actually compares obama to bush.

so, it seems to me that her strategy has to be 1 of 2 things. either 1) she has finally realized that obama's going to be the nominee, and she's decided to continue the negative campaigning and attack ads so that she can lose texas and/or ohio, bow out gracefully, making obama look tough as hell (or, to borrow her ridiculous phrase, "battle-tested") in the process. i hope, hope, hope this is the case, and if it's true, it will be the most noble thing she's done in her "35 years" of public service. but the other option, the one i think is sadly more likely: 2) she really, really doesn't get it. she is in total denial, thinks that she'll somehow recover from a dozen losses in a row despite a total inability to rally from any of her previous defeats. and she doesn't see that, by attacking the almost-certain democratic nominee with such vitriol, she's risking permanent damage to the democratic party.

2) i'm thinking that the guy who packed the amazon.com package i received earlier this week pretty much has me pegged. the package contained:

The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Phantoms in the Brain by V.S. Ramachandran
Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Veronica Mars Season 2

um, right. that's all i got.