Wonkette
- John Edwards endorses Barack Obama a month or two after it would have meant something, and Elizabeth Edwards is conspicuously absent from her husband’s big announcement. [AP]
- Republicans are scared pantless they’re going to lose even more seats this November. [New York Times]
- Feeling cheerful this morning? Read this incredibly sad account of a school that collapsed in China’s earthquake Monday, and the hundreds of parents now mourning the deaths of their only children. [New York Times]
- John McCain predicts victory in Iraq and a nearly complete troop withdrawal by 2013 — basically, the same plan as his fellow Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. [Washington Post]
- The misogynist response to Hillary Clinton’s candidacy shows just how far we have to go when it comes to vanquishing sexism. [Washington Post]
- Turning toilet water into drinking water is kind of gross and expensive, but it may be water-parched American cities’ last great hope. [Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times]
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