Post-Primary Blues Explained, or: Gummi-Bears Don't Spread Darkness and Death, Do They?

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• What went wrong is that the candidate who ran on inevitability in a change election lost to the insurgent.
• I never expected Paul Krugman to be a poor loser.
• Bill Kristol preemptively blames McCain's campaign.
• I suppose this doesn't qualify as obamapostasy since one must have been a believer first, but....
• Though Obama telling Joe Lieberman to STFU? Wins points from me.
• Fred Hiatt defends his complicity, implicitly absolving his op-ed page of any duty but cheer-leading.
• Eighteen million hostages.
• Comcastic!
• I guarantee the asshole who did this won't vote for Obama.
• Oof! Vendler attacked, Vendler responds. Tepid, actually, but the criticism of Vendler is valid.
• I haven't got the bolanorgasms (or not enough to learn how to tilde my Spanish Ns), but I think Ed is somewhat sick of the universal hallelujahs for bolanorgasms.

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In my head. Be in yours:

See, here's the thing. If I forced myself to play a stupid desert island disc game, New Order wouldn't be in my top five, maybe not in my top ten, but there's ALWAYS a New Order song in my head.