what with the democratic primaries now over (it’s only been five months? really? maybe we’ve been stuck in season 5, episode 18 of ST:TNG), we can all breathe a sigh of relief and relax for a little while. the media coverage of this has been a serious pain in the eyeballs, with non-issues getting even more play (remember the “hillary didn’t tip!” story? or how about the obama-ayers connection?) than you’d expect from our shock-and-bore mainstream press. what i’m really looking forward to, though, is the end of “what’s the matter, you don’t like [black men]/[white women]?” discussions.

my opinion of obama and hillary boils down to this: a jewish mother gives her son two shirts as a birthday present. the next time she sees him, he’s wearing one of them. she raises an eyebrow and asks, “what’s the matter, you didn’t like the other shirt?”

catch my drift?