Sarah Palin: Either she's not as smart as a third grader, or the Alaska governor craves unconstitutional power!

Quote of the Day - by Saint Robert Downey Jr.

"I'm between two phases right now, pre-Iron Man and post-Iron Man, and the transition can be tricky," he says, shifting and smoking. "It used to be, I'd drive onto a studio lot, and the guard was like, 'Less Than Zero dude, I loved Chaplin!' Now it's, 'Iron Man!' It's not an algorithm anymore. It's a fixed number. Things have been zeroed out; it's the beginning of something. But right now, it's still a void, and we tend to think of the void as an abyss or a vacuum with nothing there. In fact, it's a new road, and what you should do on this new road is close for repairs — close right away, because that old vehicle is not going to work on that new road. I mean, if the cosmos is a loving, healing thing that also spins real fast and erupts and does violent stuff, and if there really is some kind of order to the whole thing, then everything that's led up to this moment has to be part of it, or the math doesn't work. But in this transition phase, I really am trying to live as much like a lizard as I can. Hot, rock, sun, fly, tongue."

It’s Official: Obama Wins Texas

4/1/08, 2:27 pm EST

The delegate battle in the Lone Star State goes to Obama 99-94.

To recap, Clinton scored a narrow primary delegate victory 65-61.

In the (ridiculously drawn out) caucus process, Obama won 38-29.

It’s a net of five for Obama.

So let’s revisit the delegate race since March 4:

Clinton wins
Ohio +9
and
Rhode Island +5

Obama wins
Texas +5
and
Vermont +3
and
Wyoming +2
and
Mississippi +7

Texas cancels out Rhode Island. Mississippi and Wyoming cancel out Ohio. Obama’s left with a three delegate surge from Vermont.

And that doesn’t count the 10 new delegates Obama netted at the Iowa county conventions. Or the five more he netted in the final counting of California.

I’ll say it again. The Math is the new black. And it’s a bitch for Clinton.

For more on how Obama secured his stunning victory in the Texas “two step” read this recent cover story from the magazine.

Tim Dickinson