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  • Federalize the Primary System

    I give credit to this post from Digby for reminding me of a post I started and didn’t finish. Currently, states determine the date of their primary, just like they always have. Up until about 12 years ago, they all played nice and everything was hunky dory. Then the advent of the 24 hour primary…

  • A Disturbance in the Force

    As commenter joshua notes, it has been a long 10 days since my last irritation driven screed. I have no excuses, life happens. Would I have liked to use the blog pimping provided by the lovely and talented Newscoma to entertain, inform and enrage a whole new populace of people in the “sphere”? You betcha.…

  • Wharton Comes out For Consolidation

    From the CA Mayor Wharton announced today, in his state of the county, that he supports consolidating the governments of Shelby County under one roof. That’s good for the discussion…a reasoned voice that, perhaps, can lead the way. I just have one questions though…why not the schools? Sure Memphis City Schools are as much of…

  • Snakes on a Campaign…The Huckabee Enigma

    Ok, I know it’s a strange headline, but bear with me for a second. Huckabee won last night, and as I’ve been saying for more than a year now, Mike Huckabee is the most competitive candidate on the Republican side of the campaign. When thinking about such things, I go to people who have been…

  • About Last Night


    Please don’t tell your parents. Ok, so about last night’s liveblogging experience
let me say it was awesome. I notice that I get meaner the more I write so I’ll try to make it brief. 1. Congrats to Obama and Huckabee – You both are change agents for your respective parties, and change won big last…

  • It’s a Crazy Way to Select a Candidate

    So, you’ve read my predictions, you’ve probably been following the candidates. We’re a month away from the primary here in Tennessee, and you’re probably asking yourself, “What does it matter, Iowa and New Hampshire will decide it”. And you have a point. Iowa and New Hampshire, two of the whitest states in the union, whose…