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Poker and Politics: The Rise Of Barack Obama?

This political primary has been almost impossible to prognosticate. Every time you think someone's done, they come back surging (you hear that, Bush? That's a damn surge!). Huckabee continues to defy the pundits. Obama is starting to overtake Clinton, and this race seems like it's far from over. The picture is starting to become a little clearer myself, and I'm going to share a few thoughts I've had in the past few hours. We've got a final 4 in Obama, Clinton, McCain, and Huckabee. Just like a game of poker, we have the chip leaders. I'd have to say it's McCain on one side, Clinton on the other. The chip lead is just that, the lead. The game is not over. Nothing is more indicative of that than the shift in the polls. Obama is again ahead. The polls have been off a few times, but they've been more right than they have wrong. The momentum in the game is most certainly on the Obama side, it really is. Clinton fired her campaign manager, which indic

I'm Addicted to Blogging

I'm sick of MySpace. Well, I'm not really sick of MySpace. I'm sick of the problems they've been having with blogs. Two days straight and I've been unable to read blogs properly or consistently. I've been pushed out. I'm here. Hi, I'm Ere'bodee's Favorite Mega, and I'm addicted to blogging. Now, I'm not just talking about writing them, I mean reading them, too. I've loved the very idea of blogging since the day I Googled the word and found out it was out there. You keep your journal online. Never lose it. I've journaled pretty much all my life, as soon as I found out it was ok for guys to keep journals (hey, I was born in the 70's, and only girls kept diaries back then). They've gotten me in some serious junk throughout... I always wrote down things that I shouldn't have, and left my journal in places that it shouldn't be. Like when I was 18. I almost slept with my best friend's girlfriend, who had been secretl