so it seems that edwards was not only in my home suburb this afternoon, but on the very same campus that i call my home. basically, just a bunch of steps down the street from here. of course, i wasn't down the street when he spoke. i was at work in philly. but my wife sent me a gloating email bragging that she had tickets.
i've volunteered to work as an attorney/observer at one of the pennsylvania polls on election day. i will be one of the democrat's on-site legal advisor at some polling place in the state--i don't know which one yet. they're training me in pennsylvania election law, not a subject that was covered very much when i went to law school in st. louis. but if i'm right and this election ends with multiple lawsuits in numerous swing-states, it might be a good thing to know just to follow the news in november.
i can't believe that the election is only 2 weeks away now. i also can't wait for it to be over. this thing is really getting to be excruciating. a growing portion of my brain is being taken over by political wonkishness--it's already well beyond what i previously thought was my tolerance level. i simply cannot keep this up much longer.
by now virtually everyone on the left end of blogistan has made a link to this article from the nytimes sunday magazine. sorry i'm late, but count me in. i know some of my readers don't usually read political blogs (you know who you are), so this is your chance to be flogged into reading it. consider yourself thoroughly flogged. it really is a must-read.
friday night i went out to dinner with my neighbors, except they're not really my neighbors right now. (i realize that's confusing but their neighborly or unneighborly status is simply not important for the purposes of this story). anyway one of them, let's call him "matthew," had this theory. and the theory was this: if kerry wins, then a few months later there will be a flood of tell-all inside-the-bush-administration books which paint a picture of the president much like that suskind article does. only he didn't mention the suskind article because it hadn't come out yet. but i'm sure that's what he meant. he sees the future this "matthew" guy does. maybe it comes from living in a world of quantum uncertainty--straddling the line between being a neighbor and not a neighbor.
