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This is painful to watch. So, let’s watch it.

Wonk Room is paying dividends fast. What’s always aggravated me most about the conservative view of health care — strike that the economists’ view of health care — is their inability to grasp the fundamental flaws of the market (bolding mine):

There are many reasons the HSA (Health Savings Accounts) theory breaks down:
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60 Minutes featured a horrifying story last night of a man named Murat Kurnaz who was held by the U.S. government for nearly five years despite a complete lack of evidence:

Kurnaz told 60 Minutes his story using the English that he learned from his American guards. If he seems a little distant, reserved, you’ll understand why as his story unfolds. It begins in 2001, when he was at the end of that trip to Pakistan. He was headed to the airport to fly home to Germany when his bus was stopped at a routine checkpoint.
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This is a good idea. In fact, this is a good idea regardless of whether it gets Hillary out now or is given to her over the summer. Sen. Reid still surprises me every once in a while, but I find it hard to imagine that Clinton wouldn’t make for a far more effective leader.

So, there’s a campaign going on in my home state to inform the black population that Martin Luther King was a Republican. Adam Fogle at The Palmetto Scoop takes a look at it here.

I won’t argue the point that Martin Luther King was a Republican. I don’t have his voting history, but it’s not unlikely that he was. That said, the implications of this campaign (and Adam’s post) are highly misleading. Yes, the Republican Party did have a fine history as the party that ended slavery, however, while Democrats may have entered the 20th century as the party of slavery, by the 1960s, those Democrats that still held the party’s former racist views were located predominently in the South and over the next few decades, they either switched to the Republican party or the were voted out of office.
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With all the noise and fuss over this campaign season, what’s continuing to get lost in the mainstream news is the coming robot threat. I first reported on this last week, but today, new details have come to light:

Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects. It sounds like a nightmare scenario straight out of the wilder realms of science fiction, but it could be a reality, if a current Pentagon project comes to fruition.
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Despite recent party bigwigs doing their best to push Clinton out of the party sooner rather than later, I’m thinking this will go through the end of the contests on June 7th. That said, I have little fear that this will actually drag on until the convention in August. Even though Sen. Clinton has stated that she’s willing to go to those lengths, after June 7, one candidate will be ahead in pledged delegates and popular vote. Barring some sort of stunning turnaround, that candidate will be Barack Obama. I just don’t see the superdelegates sitting idly by after that point (as party elders, they know how damaging a contested convention will be), nor do I imagine that Sen. Clinton will be able to hold on to the majority of her current superdelegate supporters.
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Well, it looks like the official campaign to pressure Hillary out of the primary has begun:

* Gov. Dean believes all superdelegates should endorse by July 1st, thus sparing the party of a nasty convention fight.
* Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey endorses Obama, despite originally pledging not to endorse.
* Sen. Chris Dodd calls upon superdelegates to decide the race.
* Patrick Leahy calls on Clinton to drop out.
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Robotchina

This image just really made my day. Also, any post about the looming robot threat is worth reading.

Sorry that the posts have been getting scarcer the last few days. I’m dog-sitting for the parents of a friend of mine and they only have dial-up. So I don’t use the internet there. And given that they have six dogs, I’m pretty much living there until Saturday. Things will return to normal this weekend.
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