Image via Wikipedia Daily Kos pointed me at Kung Fu Monkey , and there it was, as promised: There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings

What the polls do not say is “Obama has another week, and that’s it! We’re outta here!” (via Daily Kos: Taking The Pulse Of The American People )

Polling is fun and interesting , but not always crystal clear, and not always (unless you’re Nate Silver ) predictive of what comes next. There’s a reservoir of good will for Obama with the public that’s deeper than with the pundits and talking heads

State senator mends fences with e-mailer in 9th grade : The e-mail was an unbroken string of sentences with no punctuation … the student’s friends and teachers at Sunnyslope, a local TV station and on the liberal Daily Kos blog