  There is no more satisfying a wake up news broadcast than that of urlLink Ralph Nader being urlLink hit in the urlLink face with a urlLink pie . I only wish that I had woken up earlier so that I could have been brushing my teeth or having a glass of juice; anything that I could have spit through my teeth in unrestrained animal pleasure would have done. Personally, I hope this is just the beginning of a urlLink larger strategy and if it is I hope Ralph Nader stops through Madison before going urlLink home . If only urlLink Al Gore had thought of this in 2000 we might urlLink not have Bush in the White House, or an urlLink aviator's suit for that matter.
This is day five of the return to work disaster and I feel slightly outside myself. I got to go out last night and destroy a friend's computer which would have been more immediately satisfying had I agreed to back-up her data before mortally wounding her grey-boxed beast. But, a few PBR's further up the road everything seemed forgivable and even fixable, which, I later discovered, it was. Even better I got to visit, only briefly, with Madison ex-pat urlLink Ben and the "usually-at-work" Peter. Aside from the "I wish I weren't in Madison working at Rubin's"/"Chicago is nice" conversation that precedes any Aaron/Ben interaction I got to hear Ben and Peter formulate odds on the DNC's 2004 presidential nomination.
To wit, Ben's blog is a fantastic resource on politics and, in general, the more scholarly pursuits of life--and Ben knows urlLink scholarly pursuits . I, on the other hand, know only of an undying passion to not be at work for another seven days in a row. 
