Hank Edson wrote a thought-provoking, others would say provocative article. Decide for yourself.

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/04/20/when-they-come-our-vote

His key hypothesis:

The New York 26th, Buffalo is presently showing 48.19 Sanders, 51.01 Clinton, the 34 precincts yet to report.

http://nyenr.elections.state.ny.us/

Anyone on the ground there to tell us what is happening?

http://news.wabe.org/post/sanders-step-back-after-big-clinton-win

A senior strategist for Democrat Bernie Sanders says the campaign will "take a step back and then decide publicly what his intentions are."

Houston got 18 inches of rain a couple of days ago. At my home in Navarro County, Texas, it rained 16 inches last October 23, and 4 more on the 24th, 20 inches in 48 hours. We had 80 inches of rain in 2015. Before last year the average annual rainfall was 34.5 inches and the record rainfall for a day was 9.5. We broke the daily record, dating back to the 1800s three times last year.

Cheating: It's no longer just for Volkswagon

For those feeling a bit depressed and discouraged by yesterday's primary results, I thought the following video might help lift your spirits a bit. It's an animated version of a political fable made famous by the populist Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, who among other things was the main architect of Canada's single-payer health care system, and led North America's first democratic socialist government as premier of the province of Saskatchewan.

Sometimes I wonder if progressives just don't realize that the Green Party has always been feeling the Bern. They have almost identical messages.