"You know the Guanaco?" Fernando asked on the phone.  "It is like a South American camel.  You will love the Guanaco."

Sure enough, another awesome Andean animal.  Good natured, lovely, generally friendly, a bit batty.  These females all came bouncing out curiously at the sound of Fernando’s truck.

It was like being surrounded by a gaggle Red Hat Ladies, all of whom want to kiss you on the cheek at once.

You must love and support Fauna Andina, Fernando’s hideaway.  I insist on it.

Clinton just celebrated a short-term victory — precisely as everyone else is starting to see she can’t possibly win.

Say, who does that remind us of?

I wrote here on the very day she announced — while she was still the presumptive frontrunner and the best-financed candidate by a wide margin, months before it was clear who might rise up and win instead — that her campaign would probably founder largely on liberal opposition to Iraq, and rightly so. I had no idea Obama would rise so soon and so strong, but the math on Hillary’s White House prospects seemed clear before this all started.  (Of course, if grade-school arithmetic were held in higher esteem, the nomination fight would have been recognized as basically over weeks ago.)

Bonus: thanks to her increasing desperation to win, Clinton’s record now includes Tuzla, threatening Iran with genocide, bold lies about NAFTA, and dozens of other future campaign ads for the opposition. All while she has alienated much of the activist base of her own party in the process.

Clinton not only can’t win this trip to the White House — now she probably can’t win one, ever.

You go to live election coverage with the technology you have.

Full disclosure: I’m an Apple shareholder. Not hard to see why, though.

The only snack that really seems appropriate.