So I watched the Biden-Palin debate with the sound turned down because 1) I was trying to work some and 2) I felt sick to my stomach (for completely unrelated reasons!) and didn't want to get doubly upset by the bad taste of canned folksiness. So instead I watched over this morning and also absorbed the best of the many, many liveblogs of the event ( Read more... )

I don't know about you, but I really don't think my Representative in Congress cares about what I think. I know this for a fact; I meet him on a plane every other January as he rushes back to get sworn in. He listens politely to me and tells me to call back to his staff, who of course never have any idea what I'm talking about ( Read more... )