when I started this blog five years ago, I was a pet sitter and the name animal-crackers made sense. now I'm a stay-at-home-dad and freelance writer, but rather than confuse everyone by getting a different blog, it's just easier to keep posting things here.

You heard it here first. I said in October that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was going to run for president.

Mike is a billionaire who signed up as a Republican because it was the easiest party in town. And it worked -- he won the mayorship. But now he's parting ways and means with Evangeliphants since he never really liked them anyway.

So imagine 1992 all over again. Instead of Clinton, Bush and Perot. It looks like Clinton, Thompson and Bloomberg. That's a shame, of course, because a New York threeway -- Clinton-Giulliani-Bloomberg -- would be awesome.