Yesterday, I reported that Dennis Kucinich has asked his Iowa supporters who find themselves in caucuses where he doesn’t have enough support to be declared “viable” under Iowa’s unusual rules to support Barack Obama. (I’m not claiming a scoop here; Kucinich put out a press release on it.)
Today several blogs and even the online New […]

Good Thursday noon, Fellow Seekers,
(This piece is cross-posted at MinnPost.com. )
Tonight, it’s all eyes on Iowa. Tomorrow, as the candidates and the klieg lights shift focus to New Hampshire, there will be a few last days of backlash against the absurd idea that a handful of politically-obsessed citizens of one undersized, atypical farm state (see […]

Good Wednesday noon, Fellow Seekers,

Belaboring the obvious, I note that late Thursday tonight, we will have the results of the Iowa caucuses (which will not be exactly what they appear to be, especially on the Dem side, see below).
The punditocracy will opine like crazy about who’s damaged and how badly, who has […]

Happy New Year, Fellow Seekers,
Hope you had a good break. I did.
Newspaper names are mostly incredibly dull, predictable and come from a very short predictable list of options. The Times, the Post, the News, the Inquirer, the Globe, the World, the Herald, the Telegram. (How weird is that, in the 21st century, to call yourself […]