The feeling of nausea that has overcome me at 4a.m. this morning, isn't due to the fact I'm finishing up a rather long (12 hour) night shift, nor is it due to the chinese food from about 6 hours ago that I probably should have put in the refridgerator some time ago. It's the sort of nausea that envelopes not only ones stomach, but ones soul as well...

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Kee-rap!

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Indianapolis' own Pierre Atlas reminds us, in his most recent column for Real Clear Politics, that the U.S. isn't the only country facing a constitutional crisis.

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From this morning's New York Times:

Gov. David A. Paterson has directed all state agencies to begin to revise their policies and regulations to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other jurisdictions, like Massachusetts, California and Canada.

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Millions displaced. Over 40,000 lost in China and 134,000 dead or missing in Myanmar. Since these tragedies first struck, I've been trying hard to find something to say here. I wanted to rail about the Burmese government's xenophobic resistance to foreign assistance.

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George W. Bush made a speech comparing Barack Obama's willingness to engage in diplomacy to those who appeased the Nazis before WWII.

The timing of this charge is interesting.

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We sometimes forget that ordinary good people can change the world. Mildred Loving did.

And it may be instructive to remember that Loving v. Virginia was decided a mere forty years ago.

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(Deep breath)

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From the AP:

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Over at Balkinization, there is an important conversation going on about another of John Yoo's recently uncovered torture memos--as in, hey, it's not torture if the President says it isn't. And what's wrong with torture anyway.

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On March 27, Secretary of State. Condoleezza Rice in a wide-ranging press conference, responded to a questions about race in the U.S. Given that, to my knowledge, she's never weighed in on the subject of race, I was surprised that she did it and did it rather emphatically.

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While I'm busily putting together the text and audio from today's event to share with you, I thought I'd start with an open thread for those of you who were in attendance to post your thoughts and observations from the Barack Obama Town Hall Meeting.

More to follow!

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There's this story I remember from college. I wrote about it in another context on another blog, but it bears repeating, at least in part, here:

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