During the two days when I relish getting a break from topics such as these, my inbox was flooded with news alerts, I received excited/dejected/disappointed texts from politically-minded friends, and I found myself scouring the internet for news during hours I usually try to spend out of doors and away from the laptop. In other words, it was a big weekend in political news.

• OBAMA QUITS HIS CHURCH — This final straw wasn't from Rev. Jeremiah Wright, or even the current pastor of Trinity (which I thought that Barack Obama had sort of unofficially stopped attending after he cut off the good reverend). No, the final straw was something said by a white, Catholic priest of no affiliation to Barack Obama who was a guest speaker at the church. I didn't cover this last week because I thought it wasn't real news, and I'm so tired of the whole Trinity angle. I guess I was wrong about it not being real news. Anyway, Father Michael Pflegler said in his sermon that Clinton was "weeping over a black man running [her] show." He apologized, but it wasn't enough. Over the weekend, Obama announced he was officially leaving the church. Inside sources say that the move is as much a political one as it is a personal one — Obama believes that if he cuts his ties with the church the media will leave the pastors and parishioners there alone. It seems unlikely, but for their sake I hope so.

• CLINTON WINS PUERTO RICO — See this post. Next.

• THE DNC RULES COMMITTEE DECIDED TO OFFER MICHIGAN AND FLORIDA HALF OF THEIR PLEDGED DELEGATES AND ALL THE SUPERDELEGATES — Fair enough, right? Especially considering the fact that the RNC punished those states with the exact same penalty (minus the superdelegates, which don't exist in the RNC) and they seem to be getting along just fine. Not so. While Obama, who begged his supporters not to protest during the DNC meeting Saturday, was okay with the arrangement, Clinton's supporters were heard yelling "Let's Go McCain" (smart!) after the decision was announced. Why? It all has to do with Michigan, where Obama's name was not on the ballot. According to the decision, Michigan's uncommitted votes (44 percent) go to Obama, giving Clinton a 10-delegate edge in Michigan. It seems like a no-brainer to me that it should end up this way, otherwise Michigan should not be counted at all. It doesn't wrap up in a nice pretty package like the Florida vote does (it depends on how you look at it, obviously, but at least Obama's name was on the ballot), but there's nothing pretty about this whole shady ordeal. If Hillary Clinton thought the punishment was so awful, she might have concerned herself with it before she started losing.