Yes, i'm still here - waiting for G to be ready to go to the airport.  in the meantime, reading news and journals.  for more on dissenting views of the current Reagan sanctification, check out Old Hickory's Weblog.  I particularly liked this entry, but if you go back a ways there's a ton more, with lots of links too.  i don't know how Bruce manages to do what he does with his journal, the amount of posting, the amount of reading and research and linking he must do to keep on top of things the way he does - it's truly phenomenal.  he also seems to do his research in several languages besides English.  so, if you're not doing a daily read at Old Hickory, it's high time to get started.  you'll be a better person for it.

i went to another Sussex County for Kerry meeting last night, signed up for two committees:  Voter Registration and Issues.  voter reg is self-explanatory, but what is (are?) "Issues?"  i'm not entirely clear, but i see it as researching Kerry's positions on issues of the election, distilling them into short, readable chunks for the folks who'll be doing PR and Events to use as talking points.  there's also doing some position papers with more information for people who'll be doing longer press releases and correcting misinformation that appears in the press, on TV, etc.   any of you progressives out there who'd like to help me out with this, or have any ideas - just holler. 

there's also a straw poll election being conducted on AOL, here's the link on the Elections page.  you can vote there once a month.  Kerry is currently leading in this, admittedly small, sample of the population, in all but three states:  Utah, Mississippi and Alaska.  i vote anywhere i can, including online polls, so i've done my June vote.  check it out.