My favorite quote of the week about the Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan ticket is from
Floyd Elliot, over at Daily Kos: "... seriously, Mitt looks like the cocoon that Ryan crawled out of ...." I wish I had said that, but I didn't, and all power to Mr. Elliot. The essay from which the line comes, "Paul Ryan, Thinky Guy," is worth reading in its entirety.
I went over the galley proofs of The 400-Million-Year Itch this week and got the corrections off to Russell Farr; still to go is Invisible Kingdoms.