Frank Rich of The New York Times, writing about Hillary Clinton's campaign, and their lack of a Plan-B post Super Tuesday, and comparing the campaign to the Bush Administration's Iraq War post-invasion planning (or lack of it), wrote

Clinton fans don’t see their standard-bearer’s [slumping campaign] this way. In their view, their highly substantive candidate was unfairly undone by a lightweight showboat who got a free ride from an often misogynist press and from naïve young people who lap up messianic language as if it were Jim Jones’s Kool-Aid. Or as Mrs. Clinton frames it, Senator Obama is all about empty words while she is all about action and hard work.

Senator Clinton says, Rich wrote, she's experienced, a hard worker, and that she'll be ready to lead on the first day of her presidency. Well if that's the case, Rich asked, why then does Clinton have a campaign organization that has--in the last 11 primaries and caucuses--been out-hustled by the staff of the "lightweight showboat"?

Here are videos from Columbia College Chicago, a communications and media arts college in downtown Chicago.

When I attended, Columbia didn't tell its story often enough. It appears they are now.

Class of '99.

Most of us take walking for granted. Until an ankle gets twisted. The ankle becomes inflamed, and if you're a smart cookie, you ice and take 600mg of Motrin. I wish your ankle safe passage.

The Replacements, one of the best bands of the 1980's, will be reissuing four new records, "Sorry Ma, I Forgot To Take Out The Trash," "Stink," "Hootenanny," and "Let It Be." These reissues will be remastered, and will include never released material and b-side tracks, according to Billboard.com.

I think The Replacements were the best of the 80's rock bunch because their shows were quite insane. Between 1985-1988, I saw the Replacements live about 10 times, and each time was the penultimate rock experience.

First the guitars. They were loud and bombastic, exactly what's needed for a 20-something year old guy, getting his first taste of independence from home, and feeling the energy associated with like-minded rock and roll fans, pogoing up-and-down in a pit of like-minded Replacements fans.

Then the songs. Paul Westerberg knows how to write a song that appeals to the young, Midwestern guy, who feels that Poison and Guns and Roses were not the answers to the question: Who's Going to Save Rock and Roll?

I'll be one of those guys looking to pickup those newly released reissues when they appear on April 22nd.

The ending of Atonement includes a confession.

There's good news on the technology scene today.

Yahoo!, at one time the Google of the technology world during the 90's, has rejected Microsoft's bid to buy it. The deal, valued at $42 billion, was deemed bad by Yahoo's board, considering its "global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments."

It's good news because technology and media need less consolidation, not more, in order for users to reap the benefits of competition, which leads to innovation.

Microsoft, a company that talks about innovation but does a bad job turning talk into action, has tried repeatedly to corner markets by introducing proprietary technologies, which in effect closes off innovation. I continue to hope that Yahoo! will not give in to Microsoft's takeover overtures.

At Rebecca's Coffeehouse, working on thesis.

Rugby at Petco!

Oil change day in San Diego.

I liked Juno.

Am I bad for putting the seal tape inside my netflix return envelope?

(HBO) For the past week, I've been watching HBO's new drama series called In Treatment. It's about a psychoanalyst, perhaps a psychiatrist, who we get to see in sessions with his patients. That's what makes it so interesting to me; seeing patients discussing their deepest issues, and me trying to "diagnose" what their issues are before Paul (the analyst) offers his opinion.

There are about 10 episodes available online (about two weeks worth of episodes), and I just finished watching them all. It's rather addicting, like watching drama unfold right before your eyes.

There's one character, Laura, who tells Paul she is in love with him. Another character is Sophie, a 16 year old gymnast who's having an affair with her coach (at least that's what I "diagnose"). Paul's wife tells him he's a bad father/husband, and that she's having an affair. Sure sounds like drama.

I like to recommend it.

In the Democratic Primary, the last two candidates, Obama and Clinton, represent the left of the political spectrum. Supposedly. In an article by Christopher Hayes in The Nation, he writes that the last two candidates standing are not discussing issues important to progressives. According to Hayes, what the two candidates are not discussing include

calling for the nation to renounce its decades-old imperial posture or to end the prison-industrial complex; neither is saying that America's suburbs and car culture are not sustainable modes of living in an era of expensive oil and global warming or pointing out that the "war on drugs" has been a moral disaster and strategic failure, with casualties borne most violently and destructively by society's most marginalized and--a word you won't be hearing from either candidate--oppressed.

Hayes makes valid and important points. Hayes, in short, is letting us know that Obama and Clinton are really not liberal enough. Similar to what McCain and Romney are battling out to see who is or isn't conservative.

An epic play of epic proportions!

With one second on the game clock in last night's Super Bowl, Bill Belichick walked off the field, his team still on the sidelines. If that's not the biggest sore loser move in all of professional sports, then there is no such thing as a sore loser.

After a year of winning every game (except the most important one), being accused and then confirmed to be a cheater, Belichick has proven to have very little class (L. Tomlinson said it first after last year's playoff lost to the Patriots).

Note to Belichick: there are young people, who saw you walk off the field, who are now taking their balls and going home. Way to go, coach, your true character has come out. Not only are you a cheater (confirmed), but you're never going to live your disappearing act down for the rest of your coaching career. And I've been reading reports that there may still be acts of cheating that have not been fully disclosed, which if found, you might be out of the game with a one year suspension. Good luck with that.

(Garrett Davis) The pit bulls once owned by Michael Vick, the former NFL star who is serving a 23 month sentence for sponsoring dog fighting, have found a wonderful home in Utah. Good for these dog, who have been through a great deal.

Read the article here, and click on the audio slide show to see what the dogs' new home looks like.

I don't like the news that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!. Let me say this: if Microsoft buys Yahoo!, I will no longer by a Yahoo! user.

I've used Yahoo! services for over a decade, and recently I've started using Open Office in order to reduce or eliminate my use of Microsoft.

(bottomlesschips) The New York Times is reporting that the Senate Judiciary Committee had sent a letter in November to the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell, asking to explain why they had destroyed video evidence of the Patriots recording the signals of the Jets in a game that was played in Week 1. For some reason the NFL didn't respond to the first letter, and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking Republican on the committee, wrote and sent another one to which the NFL and Goodell will respond to after the Super Bowl on Sunday.

Why did the NFL not respond immediately? Why is the committee looking into this matter? Is there a cover-up by the NFL?

We'll have to wait and see about any cover-up, or why the NFL did not respond immediately (according to the article, the NFL said it took until late last week before their office received the letter).

The committee is looking into the matter because the NFL has an anti-trust exemption, which most probably was granted by an act of Congress. Sen. Specter states that cheating in sports is a concern of every fan, and that the integrity of the game must be maintained, thus he wants to investigate the "Spy Gate" incident.