apropos of anything

I know it’s all politics around here lately, and I’m kind of sorry, but I’m also kind of not — this upcoming election is so important, and I can’t stop checking in on the latest developments. It might be kind of an obsession. Alicia and I were discussing the bizarre nature of the Texas primary yesterday, and after she read through a description of how it works, she said, “You’re going to be refreshing for weeks.”

Yeah. I probably will.

In any case, a link for now, hopefully to be fleshed out more tonight, along with a 3BT post: Maureen Dowd on why voting for Hillary simply because she’s a woman “fighting a man’s world” is a fallacious argument. A female president would be awesome, but I’m not voting for a woman simply because she IS a woman any more than I’m accepting Shonda Rhimes’ reasoning that Izzie is more at fault than George because Izzie hurt another woman.

Updated: I find myself disbelieving this claim that Patti Solis Doyle quit because her six-year-old son wanted his daddy instead of her. You don’t get that far on a national campaign for the presidency to quit one thousand delegates shy of the nomination. Not when sticking it through to the end could mean a place in history and a cushy position in the administration should your candidate win in November. Sorry, Patti. I’m not buying what you’re selling… unless you want me to believe it wouldn’t occur to you that your son might grow more attached to his father while you dedicated yourself to running a presidential campaign, and really, that just makes you sound incredibly dumb.

And now, back to work.