Tomorrow is election day, at least here, and there are important issues on the ballot here and elsewhere. I am personally working in a campaign for school board trying to keep a radical rightwing nutjob candidate off the school board. Another nutjob is trying to get on the City Council. I am seriously thinking about running next time an opening happens.

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich