x-posted at faboo mama  Today I ran AND completed--thank you very much--my first race. I ran the Santa Monica Classic 5K/10K. I did the 5K.

Heavily edited and x-posted from my blog Tonight was a big win for Obama. Yeah, I'm bummed that he didn't win CA, but not surprised. As I'll keep repeating, the voters of CA are incredible morons and supremely moderate. They never want to try something new. Uninformed stick-in-the-muds is my "polite company" term for the majority of our voters.

x-posted at my blog Wow. What an experience. I'm glad I went, though I should have left the little girl at home. She wanted to leave before it started! I took 107 photos, so I'll just post some of them here an tell you what's happening as we go along.

Indulge me a bit in posting on "old news", but there's a discusion going on in the blogosphere about the Senator, with the basis in feminism. On BooMan Tribune, Arthur Gilroy has decided that women, particularly left-leaning, blogging women, hate Clinton because:

I know dog whistle politics. We've watched the GOP hone it to a science, that's no longer a "dog whistle", but rather an air raid siren when they use their code words to signal the religious right, racists and money people. We know this.