No no, not yet, DR.  The world will get plenty more miserable before long, and there will be many occasions when you ask for the Last Round of Eight Belles.

Meanwhile, North Carolina has indeed been called for Barack Obama, but the percentages and the exit polls have yet to be reported.  In a sense, because he was expected to win in North Carolina, that is the less interesting of this evening's races.

As for Indiana, you might think that Wolf Blitzer and John King would make it clear that the northwest and southwest corners of the state are in a different time zone from the rest of the state!

Anyway, whatever happens, the Hillary people will somehow turn the results into pro-Hillary momentum, and not only a reason why she should stay in the race, but also why the superdelegates should shift the balance of power to her.

So, "kill me," I would say, if I were not so amused, nor so cynically prepared for disaster in any case.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

 "...the less interesting of this evening's races."

A little respect, please... We gave the man a 14 point victory tonight...

Yes we can!  Yes we can!  :-)

Sorry, GreenMom, I certainly did not intend to dis the great state of North Carolina, the first distinct fact about which that I knew was that my seventh-grade teacher, Sister James Gregory, of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, came from Charlotte, a place that we had never heard of.

Earlier, when I was 5, we had gone on a motor trip to Florida, where my father was nearly eaten by an alligator in the Everglades, before my horrified eyes (and it would have served him right, too, for ignoring the park ranger's warning NOT to feed the alligators; plus, he was foolish enough not to realize that when that alligator actually showed interest in the dumb slice of white bread that he was proferring, it really was just coaxing him to come closer and lower his guard); and on the way back, we passed through the mountains of eastern Tennessee (Clingman's Dome) and North Carolina (Blowing Rock, where I think my mother tried to chuck a handkerchief; whether it was blown back into her hand, or she lost it, I do not recall).  But, having been small then, with scanty knowledge of geography, all I remember at all vividly is the plague of yellow jackets who interrupted our picnic lunch by a babbling brook, and drove us into the car for shelter.

Anyway: Whatever happened to John Edwards, whom I was supporting from 2003 to February of this year?  (Yes, on February 5, the date of the NY primary, I could still not decide for whom to vote, Hillary or Obama, being in love with neither, so, seeing Edwards still on the ballot, I copped out and voted for him.)  Would it have mattered if he had endorsed either Hillary or Obama?  Has he rendered himself totally ineffective by not endorsing either one?  Does he have an understanding with one or both of them, that he will get a Cabinet position, provided he remains silent until he is called on?

Meanwhile, Elizabeth wrote a reserved but strong op-ed in the NY Times, a few Sundays ago, after the ABC News debate in PA, complaining about the media's superficial coverage of the campaigns and the candidates.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.