The Nationals Post ©: The New Normal

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For the off-season, this has been a rah-thah busy Saturday. We've barely had time to digest the news that our once-beloved closer has been outrighted. Sent on his way, like a DVD from Netflix. Sure, we enjoyed him for a while, but now we're ready for whatever else is in the que. Way to panic, Lerners. Sure it was expected, but even though GM Jim Bowden publicly screwed-over one of the finest pitchers and classiest guys in baseball back in July, it still hits you hard when the whip comes down. All the best, Cordero.

Sorry we hosed you.

Meanwhile, here in Red State, our little town is abuzz with

"community organizers" who are "working very hard" to convince our neighbors that voting for Barack "not-a-muslin-socialist-terrorist" Obama might actually be a good idea. Many many many people here are still holding onto various misconstrued notions about this guy. It's weird, because in our estimation he is clearly the single best presidential candidate to have come along in our lifetime. Go ahead ... you pick a better candidate from this bunch:

1968 - Nixon vs. Humphrey vs. Wallace (Independent)
1972 - Nixon vs. McGovern
1976 - Ford vs.Carter
1980 - Carter vs. Reagan
1984 - Reagan vs. Mondale
1988 - GHW Bush vs. Dukakis
1992 - GHW Bush vs. Clinton
1996 - Clinton vs. Dole vs Perot (Independent)
2000 - GW Bush vs. Gore vs. Nader (Asshole)
2004 - GW Bush vs Kerry

There are zero clues around here to give a hint as to where our neighbors are getting these crazy ideas hinting that the Democratic candidate might pose a threat to America.

Just today, we talked with a surprising cross-section of the country who came here to try to help convince Virginia voters to calm and settle and vote with their heads and wallets. The couple who drove up from Florida. The Afghanistan war veteran who flew here from San Diego. The grandmother from New York who loves this valley and attends every annual Apple Blossom Festival. And that's just the white folks.

Are we sick of this election? Hell yeah we are. November 5th can't come soon enough. No matter what happens, something huge has been awakened in America, and it's not likely to go back to sleep. The new people networks that have been created have forced a change in the way Things work. That's not going to go away. Face to face, on Twitter, web sites, and across tables loaded up with coffee, water bottles, and canvassing folders, people who otherwise would have stayed separate are now in touch, working together, and making things happen. In a large way, the campaign is the election. Victory is already ours.

Meanwhile, we are living our lives quite nicely thank-you-very-much. Halloween parties were attended last night and into the morning hours. Quin stayed over and rocked the morning with us. Then there was the bowling. And the Guitar Hero. And the Chinatown dinner.

If horse racing is the sport of kings,
then surely bowling is a very good sport as well.
- Matt Groening said that.

Sure, I mean yeah, of course we're obsessive. The baseball. The election. These are taking up a large % of brain processor power, but that don't mean we forgot about all the rest of it.