Right after my post about an organic cotton top that didn't fit right, a pretty one that fits perfectly arrived in the mail!

Note: I'll be back with more later from Elizabeth Edwards and Arianna Huffington, among others. "We are still here at the beginning." Thus opened Zephyr Teachout at this Year's Personal Democracy Forum. We're at the beginning of the Internet's impact of politics, she says. And we have a choice about what kind of future we want to create using this incredible new social technology.

There's been a lot of talk about whether "Hillary's Women" will refuse to support Obama and instead choose McCain. I don't know why this topic won't die. I refuse to believe it's real. Am I being obstinate? Mary Katharine Ham asks, will Hillary's women swing?

That is a really anti-feminist title. I'm sorry. But I do believe it's true for today's Democratic circumstance. When I worked for John Kerry in 2004, I watched in horror as the Republicans won because Americans felt decorated veteran Kerry wasn't macho enough to take on tough foreign policy challenges and Iraq. In front of our eyes, the Democratic ticket was painted as sissy, manipulative, more French than American, obssessed with their hair. This cannot happen again. So here goes....Imagine this classified ad:

Have you noticed that now that now that Hillary is presumed out of the race, the gender meme is huge? Barack Obama thanked Clinton last night: No matter how this primary ends, Senator Clinton has shattered myths and broken barriers and changed the America in which my daughters and yours will come of age.

Have you noticed that Hillary Clinton has never, ever taken a day off this year? Maybe even last year? (hat tip to Barbara Kellerman). We all know the woman works hard. She has pluck. She's a fighter. But now, to preserve her reputation, she's going to have to be a quitter, the thing that is anathema to every over-achiever in the world. From Pajamadeen:

Has this happened to you, or have you been an Obama-apologist?

Or, will she even win? Since this election is turning into a complete soap opera, let's have some fun with odds on Hillary's victory percentage tomorrow in the Pennsylvania Primary. Can Hillary win without crying? Are voters really ready for this Primary to be over? If Hillary wins by 5-7 points is it a victory for Obama?

I had the honor of interviewing Elizabeth Edwards last week in Cambridge. I said, “I’m going to interview you for BlogHer.” She said, “thanks for doing that,” and I said “your fan base on BlogHer is beyond” and she said, “these are my people.” So, “people”…Does the media cover elections as if candidates were Hollywood celebrities, bestowing coverage on who’ll make the best copy and sell most?

Part of being a token--a minority presence chosen to represent a larger group-- as Rosabeth Moss Kanter wrote in her classic Men and Women of the Corporation, is that the token receives special attention and special treatment in exchange for being expected to conform to certain stereotypes and acting a certain way. As the presidential race has progressed, both Clinton and Obama have risen above token status.

On the mortgage crisis, I’m with John McCain. He asks for mortgage lenders, not the government, to step in and help their customers find a solution. After all, both buyers and lenders colluded to live in a fantasy world where housing prices always rose and mortgage credit was as easy as swiping a card at the mall.

If you have five minutes today to mark the five years Iraq has been bankrupting this country: 1) Listen to this interview on NPR's "Here and Now" with Linda Bilmes. She offers the most concise, searing reason why this war has to end: It's financed entirely on borrowing. Given recent lessons learned on the dangers of too much credit, this packs extra punch right now. More: