Excuses include the usual: hectic work schedule, rock in my shoe, and I just got back from vacation to San Diego. As I’m currently plowing through my 256 unread items in NetNewsWire, I came up with the following question: is there a way to filter out all iPhone-related posts? Because I really don’t care.

I’m on my second RAZR that does exactly what I want it to do (and even some things I don’t, like take pictures. How utterly lame) - make and receive phone calls. My job requires me to have a BlackBerry, which I initially scoffed, but has since proven its usefulness - checking email when not at my desk. It was nice to see if there was a giant shit sandwich stinking up my inbox while I was away this week. There wasn’t.

Will I eventually get an iPhone? Yes, but not until version 4.5 and they cost $79.

Clinton Advisor Mandy Grunwald:

“If a female candidate, the first successful one in history, goes into the convention leading in the popular vote and it’s taken away from her, how do you think women are going to feel, heading into the November election?”

A few thoughts:

1. Ummm, not half as bad as the reaction if the first African-American candidate–with a lead in pledged delegates, is told to pound sand.
2. “Taken away from her”…the sense of entitlement exhibited by the Clinton camp from day 1 never ceases to amaze.
3. Clinton delegate wrangler Harold Ickes, to Reuters in January: “It’s useful to win states, but states don’t vote – delegates do”
4. Ickes today on Meet the Press: “the popular vote is a very, very strong measure and should be weighed heavily.” Iceberg? What iceberg?

Rich Lowry’s article in National Review nails it:

The change from 2000 to 2008 is simple to explain. Back then, the liberal establishment wanted Gore to beat Bush. Now, most of it wants Obama to finish off Hillary. The standards have changed accordingly.

Under no circumstances are Democrats, specifically Obama zealots, allowed to whine about the 2000 election. Not a word…