I woke up at about 3:30 a.m. and went online to see if Obama had pulled a victory out of Indiana. He had narrowed Clinton's lead to two points by midnight and later added a few more votes, but the story was basically about the same: Clinton's winning margin was so small that it didn't much count, and Obama would be the likely presidential nominee. Then I started wondering, in the vaporous midnight hours, about how you could make a movie of this primary campaign.

This has been a sad week for me. I have watched two friends whom I respect, admire and have a deep love for torn apart by pundits and editorialists, talking heads and political strategists!

As I struggled to open eyes that had not seen the light in two days, I found myself lying in a bed in a glass-encased room. Nurses and doctors stood around me writing words on yellow pads. A woman pointed bright flashlights into my sensitive eyes. Suddenly, I sat up, looking for my mother. She walked in. I cried, half-screaming, "What happened?"

Two years ago, I proposed a compromise between carnivores and vegetarians: We couldn't change our craving for meat, but we could change the way we sated it. Grow meat in labs, the way we grow therapeutic tissue from stem cells.

Myth No. 1: The name. These men and women are not named "superdelegates" by the Democratic National Committee, which makes all the rules for choosing the Democratic nominee for president. Their official name is "unpledged delegates," to contrast them with the pledged delegates chosen by either caucus or primary election. The name superdelegate was coined years ago in a speech by the commentator Susan Estrich.

If you ask Latinos, young and old, what national figure has most inspired them, chances are they will say Cesar Chavez.

Those crashing sounds you hear are the hopes of the Daley Machine and its willfully ignorant supporters being smashed into a million bits by the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. In an exercise of simple logic that seems to escape many Illinois politicians, the court upheld Robert Sorich's public corruption conviction.