Elvis Costello-Momofuku, No Age-Nouns

Well first of all I would like to pat myself on the back for my bold prediction last week. Clinton did win WV by a landslide and a fair number of articles did pop up questioning what the big loss meant for Obama. It was not quite the "comeback kid" articles I had feared, but there was enough in there to support my point, that once again there was NO SURPRISE in the final numbers in WV, Obama didn't even go campaign there, so why write an article about the surprising implications of the Clinton landslide. What I found most interesting was the 7% who voted for Edwards. I read that 7%, or 70% of that 7% as voters who hate Clinton but refuse to vote for a black candidate. That is a pretty scary number because if you have to figure a large percentage of the people who are Democrats who wont vote for a black guy would vote for the person who might have a chance (albeit infinitesimally small) to win. I am hoping that huge turnout from the black community will offset this in the General election. The one other political point I wanted to mention was this question of how Clinton can win the popular vote. When referenced in the news they usually say something like "by some counts, Clinton still could catch Obama in the popular vote". Now I haven't actually seen what these counts but I SUSPECT that the count in which Clinton wins includes counting the pro-Clinton votes in Michigan (where Obama was not on the ballot) and NOT COUNTING the "Other" votes in Michigan for Obama. Well to me that seems like a really big stretch. If anybody knows anything more about this please let me know.
The new Elvis Costello album was supposedly recorded in something like 2 hours on minidisc player and is being heralded as a return to his roots. Well usually when you listen to those types of albums "returns to greatness" they suck just as much as all the other recent albums by the aging artist. In this case though I think this is a little better than that. It was pretty good, and sounded close to a classic Elvis Costello album. I don't know much about No Age but I didn't really like them too much. The man is applauding happily, and the 1 hat.