Barack Obama will be kicking off the general election campaign tomorrow at
my old high school in Bristol Virginia. Unfortunately I can’t get away to see him, so I’ll have to rely on reports from
Dad and
Glen. But I think it’s amazing that he’s going to show up at this smallish high school deep [...] Read more »

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Business travel took me out of my comfortable Virginia home this week and has pretty much kept me from posting much of anything, even in my
Twitter feed. But we fly out of here early in the morning and regular posting will resume shortly thereafter. Read more »

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The following story at
Ish’s request.

It was only luck that woke me up a little before 4:00 on Friday morning, but it was a good opportunity to see if the automated newsletter we’d written for Congressional staffers had been sent successfully. So I waited until four, checked my email, saw the message had gone [...] Read more »

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Frequent commenter and friend GLS has started a new blog called
The Critical Edition where he plans to talk politics and religion. We don’t always agree, but I’ve always found GLS to be an insightful and careful thinker on these subjects. Given the intersections in subject matter between his and mine, you can certainly expect [...] Read more »

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Since moving to Blacksburg — before, actually — I’ve been talking about buying a bicycle. Blacksburg is a very bike-friendly area and I live close enough to work to make driving there seem foolish but walking there rather time-expensive. The bike route is even more direct than the road route.
What’s holding me back is [...] Read more »

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