• Mike Smith of the Dave Clark 5 died. My thoughts, if you're interested, are here.
  
  
• Sustainable energy solutions: apparently the best prospects for wind energy are a broad swath of red states in the middle of the country, which might lead to a bipartisan embrace of clean energy as jobs are created in the building and maintaining of wind farms. Also in the works are genetically modified bacteria that ingest CO2 and secrete clean-burning fuel.
  
  
• Obama: Yes, I am liberal. Yes, that's a good thing. What's the big deal?
• Andrew Sullivan lays into Clinton on her request to be taken on her record and not just faith:
  

  The record is that the senator's one single attempt at policy implementation - healthcare reform - was an enormous failure in which her own arrogance, secrecy and paranoia derailed universal healthcare for a decade. On the most critical foreign policy decision of her career, Iraq, she was disastrously wrong. And in terms of management experience, she clearly can't run even a campaign half-way competently. I think she'd be better off asking people to take a leap of faith, don't you?

  
  Ouch. More vitriol from Sullivan here.
  
  
• Apparently young Jenna & Barbara asked their dad recently what irony is, so he decided to give them examples. Here he is explaining that the Turks, who have just invaded Iraq, need to accomplish their mission and get out quickly. Here he is explaining that we should not meet with leaders of hostile countries that commit horrible crimes against their people, except for Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia.
  
  
• Hillary was considered for months and months and months to be the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Now she is getting her ass handed to her by Barack Obama, who is the new frontrunner. According to her spin guys, if Obama does not kick her ass even worse in Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island, it means that (despite him having resoundingly won the last 11 straight contests) Democrats are getting cold feet and Hillary Clinton is the real winner. I think the only people really qualified to discuss logic that backwards are Kriss Kross.
  
  
• In February, the shortest month of the year, Hillary Clinton is expecting to have pulled in around $35 million. That is seriously impressive. However, according to some projections, Barack Obama may pull in over $50 million. But man, wait until you see the numbers posted by John McCain, who no longer has any substantive competition and whose party has one of the best fundraising establishments in recent memory. Man, his fundraising totals are going to BLOW YOU AWAY! According to TPM, McCain's campaign projects income at over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS this month. Man, that's impressive. I mean, seriously, that's like . . . a whole seventh of what the Democrats raised. I don't know how Clinton and Obama are willing to go toe to toe with that political juggernaut.
  
  
• And my favorite news of the day: of the $370 million pulled in by the RIAA in lawsuits against Napster and other filesharing services, after all of those ads running about intellectual property rights and how the people that are getting screwed are the artists, the artists are getting nothing more than a middle finger from their labels and self-proclaimed advocates. If the Rolling Stones sue the RIAA, I'm having a party. If you don't believe Mick and Keith can bring them to their knees, you were obviously never a fan of The Verve.