71 minutes, 52 seconds

Cdatakill
Paradise

Too much caffeine during the day yesterday, followed by too much alcohol at dinner last night. So not exactly a restful night's sleep. Kept waking up, trying to think of a funny caption for this week's New Yorker cartoon contest. Couldn't come up with one. Or if I did come up with one, I must have dreamed it, and now I can't remember it. Damn. I just had to have that post-meal cognac.

Anyway, we were talking about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama last night. Lately I've been informally polling friends to ask them which is likelier to happen first: that our president will be black and male or white and female? I've been getting different responses, which I hadn't really expected. I guess I thought the overwhelming majority would say white female. After all, women are at least half the population, compared with blacks, who make up about 10%. But those who think a black male has a better chance point to the sexism still prevalent across America and, when talk rolls around to Hillary, at least, the extreme hatred many Republicans and even swing voters still have for her--a leftover from her days as a lightning-rod first lady during her husband's administration.

Maybe. I actually think neither Clinton nor Obama has any real chance at all. One of them could get the Democratic nomination, but I can't see the nation at large voting for one of them over, say, McCain. I wish I could, but I can't. It really makes me wish Gore would run again, under some sort of "The president we should have had all along" banner.

Regardless. There's still two more years of President Monkey-Boy to slog through, which should make anyone who succeeds him look good.

Also today:

71:46 Mentallo and the Fixer, No Rest for the Wicked (CD 1 of 2)
71:45 Symbiont, Broken Silence
71:45 Westwind, The Bunker