Just about now, you have browser tabs open on every news site and blog covering today's primaries, and you're hitting the "refresh" button before the pages even fully load. You already know the weather forecasts for Cleveland and Dallas, you've got delegate count estimates scribbled on the back of an envelope, and you have actually spent time trying to tease out the meaning of 1% shifts in polls with 10%  margins of error.

Breathe.

Here's a smattering of lyrics from topical songs.  I'm posting this not so much to tell you about mine (except for the first one, which is relatively unknown but should be the anthem of our age) but because I want to know yours.

This is cross-posted at: http://rayrandomly.blogspot.com/

This diary is an Eastern Daily Time Diary, pray, do not be confused if you are in a Mountain, Central or Pacific Time Zone.

SallyCat wrote  See you in February . . . Maybe.  She tired of the virulent partisanship.  I agree with her sentiment, but already miss her kind spirit.  In dedication to SallyCat and others who are taking a break, I am offering a diversion for anyone who would like respite.  I am computer challenged, thus I can't offer pootie, flower, children, landscape pictures.  I can only offer words, thus I begin with a Partisan song which I hope does not offend.

Everybody knows the Coulter's had it
Everybody knows that Malkin Lied
Everybody knows Rush put his foot in it
when he attacked the troops that died.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

This is a Saturday poll from the Saturday news network. (SNN)

Why does "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen resound so long and plangently with so many artists? And who does it best, if anyone, although we really are one big choir?

Question 2: Are we really one big choir?

Question 3: What IS that chord that pleased the Lord?

Everybody knows....
http://www.leonardcohen.com/...
that the Republicans currently in power are figureheads for big business and the small group of wealthy elite who benefit from government policy at the expense of everyone else.

With control over all branches of government, this wealthy elite is succeeding in ruthlessly wiping out 40 years of work done by progressive interest groups.

When I've asked fellow environmentalists and fellow animal rights activists about joining forces, the answer I usually get is that they do not want to lose focus and dilute their message. And so each battle is fought on its own against a powerful enemy that has control of all the levers of power.

Can progressive groups overcome this myopia, in order to work together to achieve one big common goal -- namely, a system of rules and laws and policies that are fair-minded, serve the general welfare and live up to our highest ideals?