Legal Commentary

This is a nice shiny happy picture of Hillary 'n' Barack.

By Ann Althouse

But for people like me with an eye for negative space in a photograph, we're looking at that strange haloed shape on their merged shoulder. I think it's Pokemon!

ADDED: I mean Pikachu. I stand corrected. Pokemon, I'm told is the generic category, and the particular yellow guy who ? in phantom form ? came to rest on the Hillobama shoulder is a Pikachu:

They are said to store electricity in their cheeks, and by simply squeezing them they can discharge sparks, bolts or other forms of electricity.... Pikachu gather in areas with high amounts of thunderstorm activity such as power stations. When threatened, a group of Pikachu can generate an intense electrical offensive, and the electro-magnetic forces exerted by the resulting field can even produce a short-lived, localized thunderstorm.

Full post as published by Althouse on February 01, 2008 (boomark / email).