--John Kerry had lower grades at Yale than President Bush, including four D's freshman year. Who saw that coming? Imagine the campaign the Dems could have ran, possibly successful: "our man is more stupider than your man" or "representing the common man's grade: John Kerry" or "ask not what John Kerry can do for you, ask what you can do to help raise John Kerry's test scores" or "Yale: where failure leads to greatness" or "Yale: Where the great become mediocre and the mediocre become president"

--Sorry, got carried away. In other news, Kathleen Edwards, an oft-annoying conservative columnist, has a decent piece today about Howard Dean, who I've supported in the past. She argues that the problem with him is not that his comments (like the one about Republicans being a white christian party, which she points out is in fact pretty true), but his delivery. He makes harsh comments without softening them with a joke, he doesn't know how to mix hot and cold, etc. Having seen him speak many times, I can understand what she is getting at. Regardless, the article makes for an interesting read: Dean's missing funny bone

--Also, it looks like my lobbying efforts with the Portland media to raise hell about the OSAA's attempt to change Oregon high school sports is paying off. Ken Goe wrote a sports column about it last week, independent of my lobbying, but now Steve Duin, a Metro columnist who I talked with last week, has issued an order for people to raise hell about the decision. Read about it here