Vote today

... and hope that someone counts your vote.

Today is a turning point. Be a part of it.

See you at the victory parties. If I'm not too hung over, I'll resume regular posting tomorrow.

2008

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May we all have a healthy and prosperous new year. A few things I'm hoping for in 2008:

• Categorical rejection of Bushism at the polls
• Return to Constitutional government
• Some serious damn accountability that starts to put Republican criminals in jail
  
• Resolution of the debt crisis without a depression

I'd wish for a return from Iraq, but I know that's not possible without impeachment.

Most important personally, I hope for my daughter to get into the college of her dreams.

Oh, and no hangover tomorrow!

Change of season

Here in the Boston suburbs, I can still take the dog for a walk at night wearing shorts or short sleeves - but no longer both. Despite the remnants of summer haze veiling everything in the sky but Cygnus, it's time to change from the bittersweet relief of gin and tonic to the sweet smoke of whiskey.

Shame we can't change our leaders so easily. Of course, I'd never drink the rotgut moonshine laced with strychnine that the Bushists represent in the first place.