Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Your Morning News 3.4.08

Posted by Josh in Barack Obama, canada, Election 2008, hillary clinton, ohio, oil, sports, Texas, tired op-ed cliches

Don’t worry kids, Daddy’s back. Neither rain, nor snow nor stomach flu will keep me from my appointed blogging. At least, not for very long.

And what a day to come back to. It is a day some (the lame) are calling Junior Super Tuesday. The fate of the Democratic and Republican primary campaigns are on the line in elections and caucuses today in Texas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island. This round of elections caps of two weeks of furious campaigning. If Senator Clinton doesn’t win in either Ohio or Texas, than her campaign is all but finished. Some are saying that you shouldn’t forget about Rhode Island and Vermont — Those people are wrong. For those interested, today’s must-read is a longish piece on 8 questions that the primary could answer. For the lazy, just say that you think Clinton will probably win Ohio and that Texas will be very close.

Canada, Oil, and Male figure skating after the jump

One of the issues that arose during my absence was a kurfluffle over a memo between the Obama campaign and the Canadian government. USA Today has a great rundown of the whole thing, which I just wanted to feature because any suspicious plots that involve Canada are awesome.

Oil hit a record-setting price of $103.95 a barrel yesterday. Because of declining currency values, people are moving their investments to commodities. I, for one, have $207.90 worth of oil stashed in my apartment.

For your enjoyment, a sports scandal that doesn’t involve steroids. Instead, it involves unitards and statistical averages!

Finally, a memo to Op-Ed page editors: The writer’s strike is over. This was cute while it was going on, but it is seriously getting old.

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