Is everyone excited for Poem in Your Pocket Day today? Mayor Bloomberg is! Though he already implored his Twitter followers to write 140-character poems for a chance to be published in Metro New York, Bloomberg decided to show off a little with a poem inspired by the first line of Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing with Feathers." You can barely tell whose is whose! more ›

Mayor Bloomberg's trip to the University of Oklahoma to caucus with a bipartisan group of current and former politicians and grouse about Washington gridlock only fueled the fires of speculation that he is preparing a Presidential run. People are already strategizing about who his ideal running mate would be. Bloomberg is sticking to his (anti-)guns, however, and still claiming that he is not a candidate. But his pollster told the LA Times that our Mayor is seriously considering a run and will make a decision in the next two months. more ›