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When my lovely woman moved to Nevada from Cincinnati to come be with me, we both took jobs at a small private college in Incline Village, NV, just a stone's throw from the shore of Lake Tahoe.

Bruce Barlett discusses the intellectual right’s fascination with the Obama phenomenon:

Many times I've written here that things are very amiss out in the land of the scared, home of the broke, and at times I've sounded....a bit shrill, for lack of a better description.

Interesting snippet from MotherJones:

Aunt B. shares her theory on why Appalachians don’t care for Barack Obama:

Yesterday I posted numbers without words and my reasons for doing so were far less political and dubious than what some readers assumed.

I was simply counting.

As Marc Ambinder points out, he is a superdelegate:

So all this talk of him brokering a deal between Obama and Clinton has a sliver of reality to it.

I would hope that the Dems just get happy with which ever candidate wins the nomination. I like Obama, but if he doesn’t get it, then I am with Clinton. I hope those who are for Clinton will accept Obama if he wins the nomination.

You see, this is where I am right now as well.

It comes from Italian via Latin for goddess, the feminine form of divvus.

“a leading woman singer, esp. in grand opera; prima donna.”

And in the interest of completeness…

prima donna: Italian, lit. first lady. - the principal woman singer in an opera or concert or 2) [Colloq] a temperamental, vain or arrogant person.

Therefore the following might be rightly called divas: