The Empire Strikes Barack

Another Pickup for House Dems

The Democrats picked up another seat on May 3 with Don Cazayoux winning LA-06 in a special election to replace Republican Richard Baker who resigned to become a lobbiest. Previous to this win, LA-06 had been a Republican seat for 25 years. If this is any indication of how things are going nationally the Republicans are in serious trouble.

In 2004 Bush won LA-06 by 14%.

Noooooo!

In another in an ongoing series of "impending doom" posts, the US army has announced that they are developing "electronic insects."

The doomsday clock just advanced another tick.

Tom Hanks For Obama

"as an official celebrity, I know my endorsement has just made your mind up for you"

Guam

Obama wins Guam. I guess this means you can add 5 delegates to his total and 4 to Hillary's.

Indiana and NC on Tuesday.

Omen?

You think?

Hillary: If I had 4 Wheels I'd Be A Car.

See the bold portion here.

International Workers Unite (outside the US)

Happy May Day!

Celebrate the Proletariate by casting off your chains. May Day was adopted by the Second Workers International which chose May 1 to commemorate the Haymarket Affair (aka Haymarket Riot) in Chicago.

That's right. That holliday where Krushchev would wave at tanks and missles was started right here in the U.S. of A.

Photo by Flickr usere get down used under creative commons license.

Not So Dirty

The official response to Women's Voices Women's Vote about the questionable robocalls in North Carolina is up here at dailykos.

Looks like it wasn't really the shennanigans it appeared at first. Probably. It appears to be just a mistake rather than a coordinated effort to confuse minority voters. I tend to credit this explanation, but I admit it's just because I am more positively inclined to the group making the statement. I'm still a bit skeptical, but on balance I'd give them the benefit of the doubt barring more evidence.

Play Ball

Thanks to a good friend who got tickets from work, I went to my first ball game of the season last night. It was cold (not least because I didn't dress for it... I wasn't planning on going to a game when I went to work) and the Yankees lost to the Tigers, but it was really great to go see a game again. I'm looking forward to many more this summer.

Photo of Yankee Stadium courtesy of Flickr user Jeff Keen used under creative commons license