An alert and loyal reader sends in that inspired headline and this inspiring story from the Newark Star-Ledger:

The Xanadu megamall’s 18-screen movie theater, 800-foot indoor ski slope and skydiving wind tunnels aren’t open for business yet, but Gov. Jon Corzine couldn’t resist taking a look around yesterday.

Corzine walked through the half-mile-long, 2 million-square-foot complex with an entourage of state officials at the invitation of developer Larry Siegel.

Fun item in Yeas & Nays:

Who says journalism needs ethics? Certainly not the Newseum.

Visitors to the new, popular Pennsylvania Avenue museum about journalism might notice that the “Ethics” exhibit doesn’t get much real estate. (This despite the seemingly endless ethics scandals — Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, Jack Kelley — that have tarnished the fourth estate’s credibility in recent years).

It clocks in at 800 square feet.

What’s that, you say? Sounds like some sizable space? Well, then, consider this: The Newseum’s gift shop — all two floors of it — occupies a whopping 2,600 square feet.

We’ve got an explanation for the disparity.  Space allocation.  Surely these books are available for purchase in the gift shop?

With the looming campaign showdown in Indiana, might it be just a matter of time before Hillary Clinton pulls out the regional Midwest appeal?

Leaving behind her relationship to the lace mills of Scranton, it might be high time for Hillary to re-embrace the Chicago Cubs.

From the Raleigh News & Observer’s Dome:

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole is heading to Wisteria Lane.

But she’s not going there to visit the cast of “Desperate Housewives.” Dole is going to raise money.

A Dome reader sent us an invitation to a fundraiser for Dole and U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, both Republican incumbents seeking re-election, on May 10 at a Mooresville home on Wisteria Lane.

Oh, I’m sorry.  Dole.  I thought they said Doll.

So sad to hear about the rice shortage.

Of course, it being Passover right now, I’m not directly affected.  Can’t eat it during Passover (unless I’m Sephardic, of course, which I’m not, but I sure do love those folks).
Still, once Passover is over, you bet I’ll be outraged about the rice shortage.  Should I even blame President Bush?

It wouldn’t be without precedent.

Please join me in remembering Bob Schieffer’s question to President Bush in an October 2004 debate with John Kerry:

Mr. President, to you. We’re talking about protecting ourselves from the unexpected, but the flu season is suddenly upon us, flu kills thousands of people every year, suddenly we find ourselves with a severe shortage of flu vaccine. How did that happen?

YES!  HOW … DID … THAT …. HAPPEN?!

Oh, sorry, I joined the outrage there a moment.

Maybe, to solve rice in the White House, we need Rice in the White House?

Via Fishbowl, the Brown Daily Herald:

A female audience member ran on stage last night and threw a green pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who had just begun a lecture on environmentalism in Salomon 101. The woman had been sitting in the south side of the auditorium’s front row when she pulled the pie out of a Brown Bookstore plastic bag that had been tucked in a red backpack and leapt out of her seat.

No word if the New York Times made the pie available for a Pulitzer Prize and book deal.

Spotted at FamousDC:

*** Media Advisory ***
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Pelosi to Hold Weekly Press Conference Tomorrow, Celebrate Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
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Washington, D.C. To celebrate Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is inviting members of the Capitol Hill press corps and staff to bring their children to her regular weekly press conference tomorrow, Thursday, April 24. Following the regular Q&A, the Speaker will take a few questions from the children.

Boy, they really are pushing the McCain-is-too-old angle.  First, kiddie Speakers.  Now, kiddie reporters.   What’s next: kiddie superdelegates?

Extreme Mortman’s exclusive Superdelegate Tracker files this report, live from the field:

OK,OK, so Rocky beat Apollo Creed yesterday, 55-45.

No big deal, actually, since there’s no way Rocky can catch Creed in pledged delegates.

How do we know this? Check out CNN’s “Democratic delegate calculator” here.

Assume that Rocky wins each of the remaining nine title fights by the same 10-point margin, 55-45, as the results of the “Thrilla in Phila.”

Even then, according to CNN’s calculator, she would be behind, 1895 to 1811, in total earned pledged delegates.

That leaves Rocky needing to convince 70 percent (214 total) of the 311 undecided superdelegates that she beats Creed on points in order to get to the 2024 total delegates needed to call herself ‘champ.’

Apollo Creed, meet Tonya Harding.

Congratulations Larry King on your contract extension. We all hope we’ll look this good when we turn 77.

Your ‘bitter’ small town election results, exclusively here:

1) “In Beaver County, bordering Ohio, Clinton gained nearly 70 percent of the vote.”
Source here.

2) Clinton also swamped Obama with 60 percent of the voters in Hooker, PA (which actually votes in Concord Township).
Source here

3) Obama took all three precincts in Leacock Township, where the unincorporated town of Intercourse, PA is located.  Likewise, Blue Ball (which votes in New Holland) went for Obama.
Source here