Drive-by Posting: Grand Election Auto
- They ended up partnering me with a U. Michigan professor in Middle-Eastern Studies, zooming all morning across western Detroit on various missions from Ann Arbor party headquarters. Michael drove, I navigated shotgun, we delivered papers and people from Point A to Point B. It was sort of like those computer games where you drove around town making pizza deliveries or pickups or whatnot -- like a real life Grand Election Auto -- and fun, actually. At left, Michael and I at a polling site in Taylor, about twenty miles east of Ann Arbor, with one of the folks we helped out during the day.
They say there are a quarter million of us out there today.
Out there for many reasons.
Here's one.
So now we're in that place we're all familiar with: when the fellowship application's been slipped into the FedEx dropbox; when the speaker closes debate and the voting's about to start; when the exam paper's been handed in; when our patient's been wheeled down for surgery. Everything's been done that can be done. All that's left is the waiting.
And then the fights to come.
- You say you're tired and you just want to close your eyes
and follow your dreams down --
Well, we made a promise
We swore we'd always remember
No retreat, baby, no surrender--
Like soldiers in the winter's night
With a vow to defend
No retreat, baby, no surrender...