Well, he just lost the Northeast...

[orichalcum]

Breaking new ground in hedging, Bill Richardson claims to be both a Red Sox and a Yankees fan.

I'd like to have more support for Richardson. He's got lots of foreign policy and governmental experience and seems like a nice guy and is from a minority background. But the man seems to have extraordinarily low charisma for a trained diplomat.

I also still remain confused about the depth of Hillary Clinton's support, given that I have a hard time locating hard-core Clinton fans.

Lots of grading to do. Amusingly, my class's Wikipedia articles have already changed the Google results for a variety of my own common research topics.

Meanwhile, my students remain confused about Constantine's family tree. Not that I blame them - what possessed him to name his sons Constantine, Constantius (II, after his father), and Constans? Even in Latin it's not much better.

The Romans needed more names. If I ever have a time machine, after I do the important things I'll give the Romans an extra two dozen first names and the Welsh and Czechs some real vowels.

Comments

[havenstone.livejournal.com]

I would give pretty much any high-level cabinet post to Bill Richardson. And if a plane then hit the White House and knocked out everyone else in line for succession to the Presidency, I'd be entirely comfortable with him as President. But I'm afraid that's the only way he's getting there...

What amazes me is how much money no-hoper or slim-hoper presidential candidates still manage to raise...

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying he wouldn't be a good President. He just doesn't seem to be a very good candidate.