[BigRapidsJackass]

Newman, you beat me to it.

Drew, surely you're joking. Plat discipline when you're playing T-ball? Talk about a moment of zen. Let's teach the kid to walk up to the tee and just stand there.

Come to think of it, that would teach patience. I've got a 6-year old. Think I'll try that.

And no, Newman, Indiana is not lily-white. Remember Gary, Indiana, home of the Jackson 5? Indianapolis, too.

Interesting article I saw about Obama: he does great in the states with very low black populations (Colorado counts here). He does great in states with very sizeable black populations. But in states with roughly 15-20 percent black populations, white voters flock to Hilary. They seem to fear black people with political power -- the black population isn't high enough to make black political power a reality, not low enough to make it a purely hypothetical exercise. They want to maintain their own power bases. I think this is a very real phenomenon. And Obama will have continuing problems with it. He ran as a kind of new candidate, post-racial, all that. We now see that to rise to power he had to create the same messy coalitions as any other candidate -- yes, that meant sucking up to buffoons like Rev. Wright and currying favor with old '60s radicals like that Ayers guy (remember, his district included Hyde Park and the University of Chicago radical crowd). It'll be hard to distance himself from all that now. That's sad, because I really think he is a sensible candidate, far more centrist than Hilary, far more open to new ideas to solve old problems.