At your service: Aurora Central Library

One thing that doesn't make it into most media channels is good, honest praise for a job well done. It's almost clichéd to say that newspapers, radio, TV news and blogs tend to focus on the negative and not the positive.
Let me take this opportunity to do my small part in going against the tide: You know you've got a good thing going, Aurora Central Library, when you've got more than a dozen folks lined up outside your doors before opening every day.
Waiting that extra hour to get in on Friday (as opposed to the usual 9 a.m. opening) is very much worth it, even if you're just looking for a place to escape the world for just an hour and read with the sunlight beaming through the big panes of glass separating the books and people from the bustle of the outside world.
So again, kudos to Central.

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Speedy delivery

Overhead on the police scanner about 10:36 p.m. Tuesday, March 4:

A delivery driver for a certain pizza joint (I'll call it Padre Juan's) was reported driving down Chambers in excess of 100 mph.

Me, I try to make my own pizza when possible, but I don't know whether that driver deserves a tip for working extra hard to get things delivered while it's warm, or whether it's better to tip off the cops about a maniac driving faster than the century mark in a residential area.

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March 4 Voting: Early Predictions

I'll quickly add to the dearth of educated guesses concerning today's set of primary and caucus voting:
• Hillary Clinton will find a reason or two to stay in the race, regardless of her performance in Ohio and Texas. Even if Obama takes both states, I don't see this race ending before Pennsylvania unless HRC is absolutely blown out today.

• Obama will not score his knockout; the recent swing in momentum toward Clinton (as witnessed in a number of recent polls and surveys) will keep Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island close, with HRC scoring at least one win in the big delegate states of Texas and Ohio.

• The Dallas Morning News endorsement of Mike Huckabee will have a larger-than-expected effect on GOP returns. I think more and more people are considering the possibility of John McCain serving one term before letting whoever ends up as veep take up the Republican banner in 2012. I wouldn't be surprised if Huckabee or Romney ends up on the ticket with McCain, just as Democratic runner-up John Edwards ran with John Kerry in 2004.

• Conversely, there's no chance in heck of a Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton ticket... Look for John Edwards to be on the shortlist for Obama and Bill Richardson on HRC's shortlist for vice president.

• Rush Limbaugh will say something absolutely asinine Wednesday regarding Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Howard Dean.

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