I protest.

He's alive.

After an extended period of sixty-, eighty- and hundred-hour weeks, I have managed to deliver on my latest project and am now able to give some attention to the rest of my life. To that end, I'll be blowing some of the dust off this weblog and posting a bit, as it strikes me.

Due to the intense pressure of the end of the project, I was able to see exactly none of the Democratic Convention, but I was able to catch snatches of coverage through Atrios and others. Very cool and a definitely different way to see it. I also listened a bit to the Al Franken Show and watched a couple of Daily Shows (thank the gods for Tivo), which were amusing. (Particularly amusing was Joe Biden, who was easily as funny himself as Jon Stuart.)

It looks like I'll be voting for Obama in 2012 or thereabouts, if he keeps it up. (Hmm, Obama/Newsom in 2012? I could vote for that.) I didn't catch the speech itself, but he certainly said all of the right things. While I am not affected emotionally by such appeals, I do recognize them and it sounded like he believed what he was saying. And it couldn't be more different than what the Republicans are saying these days.

I must say that I believe that Bush will be shown the door on November 2, in no uncertain terms. I wouldn't be surprised if it's the biggest turnout in recent years, nor if Bush loses by a fairly large margin. The house of cards the Bush administration has built is beginning to fall apart. Abraham Lincoln was right, and while some are still fooled, the rest appear to be waking up to reality. It doesn't help Bush that the economy is cooperating with him no better than it did with his dad. I find it singularly satisfying that every tactic the Republicans have been trying to use has backfired on them. It is really nice to have the truth on our side. It must really be damned inconvenient for them to have to keep trying to come up with more and better lies, as the old ones are demolished as fast as they are uttered.

Heh. It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of assholes.