After suffering her ninth and tenth consecutive losses in a row last night, it’s understandable that Hillary Clinton this morning called for an alternate reality.

“Let’s get real,” she said in a Hunter College auditorium that seemed to be packed mostly with the middle-aged women who make up her base. “Let’s get real about this election. Let’s get real about our future.”

With the must-win contests in Texas and Ohio looming, Clinton’s task of exorcising Democratic voters of their enchantment with Barack Obama seems more difficult by the day. This morning, she continued to try to turn Obama’s eloquence against him by suggesting, once again, that he is all fancy talk and no action.  read more »

I've noted the who and the when, but to keep the party crashers at bay, I'm withholding the time and location. Because honestly, there's only so much booze an open bar can serve to you all.  read more »

When we were in Spain earlier this year, we decided that we wanted to honeymoon in an English-speaking country so as to avoid communication anxieties. We want to go somewhere neither of us has ever been, so Hawaii and Australia are both out. Tahiti's great but it's a French-speaking country. We finally decided to split our time between Fiji and New Zealand. But one peak at hotel prices in Fiji and holy cow! Those little beach bungalows do not come cheap. My friend and bridesmaid, Danielle, suggested the Cook Islands, halfway between Tahiti and Fiji, English speaking, and far less "discovered." Off the beaten path (slightly), difficult to get to, and not likely a place where we'd ever bring the kids. Beachfront bungalow, here we come.

GEORGE: You want to start?  read more »

The view from Washington, apparently, is that Freddy is an almost 19th-century creature of an exotic, nearly extinct breed: the local Democratic Party machine hack. There's something to that view, though we're unsure how a magazine whose central political identity is a fond glance back to the great old Clinton years can be quite so snide about politicians playing politics.

"All his adult life, Ferrer has been playing by the same set of rules -- that the way to succeed in politics is to behave like an unapologetic hack. Now that he's on the verge of his greatest success, voters and the press have decided unapologetic hackery isn't good enough. Suddenly they want 'consistency.' And 'principle.' And 'character.' Well, I say it's not fair. You don't cut Social Security benefits for people who are about to retire. You don't change frequent-flier incentives for people who've already earned their free trip to Hawaii. And you don't go revising the criteria for political leadership when a longtime pol like Ferrer is about to grab the brass ring....