Day April 22, 2008

Campaign of the Undead

The Clinton campaign still lives. She can’t win the nomination, but will apparently continue shambling on until… she can’t any more. I still think 1) it’ll be over by June 1, which will gives Obama five months to campaign against…

The Pennsylvania primary

A 10+ point lead will be seen as a big Clinton win while anything less than five points will be a big Obama win. However, if Clinton’s victory is between five and 10 points, the campaign continues. I’m guessing it’ll…

The recent Twitter outage

Twitter had some growing pain burps these past few days. They upgraded the software to provide faster service, and found many Tweets weren’t getting through in a timely manner. There was much gnashing of teeth as Twitter addicts went into…

Life expectancy declines for some in US

Significant declines were concentrated in Appalachia, the Southeast, Texas, the southern Midwest and along the Mississippi River. Life expectancy increases were mainly in the Northeast and on the Pacific Coast. “What’s driving the disparity is the worsening of the worst…