I love how news agencies report the inevitable as if it’s breaking news. Barack Obama has had the Democratic nomination secured for about a month now, but somehow it’s important to report that he officially “made history”. OK, he officially made history last year. He only recently re-made history in a kind of sardonic way. He was officially nominated to the position that he had secured informally a month earlier. It’s not breaking news. History was already made. It was only confirmed with his nomination.

Writers! So melodramatic.