Liberal Deathmatch, Day 1:

Most shocking thing of the convention so far was that Atlas Hugged and I were able to get into Schwartz's without having to wait, which was good. The downside is that I didn't get to wax philosophical about whether or not it is worth waiting in line for a sandwich, no matter how good.


But the actual convention? God damn, there is a lot of chanting going on here. Just now, a legion of people in the lobby below started screaming "We don't know". Or maybe it was "we like pop". I'm not totally sure. Wayne says more over at Progressive Bloggers- but needless to say, it is all a bit annoying. Things are looking up though, as you can see off to the right, the Crystalline Entity has taken care of at least one of the rallies. Rumour is that iggy has a giant tuning fork, so who knows how long the rallies will abate.

Anyway, last night was the opening night celebration, which is accurate only in as much as people were there looking to celebrate. Sadly, it was mostly very lame. Dean was late, but spoke well, though apparently he has some sort of inside information as he was making allusions to "our spring elections".