sj's Longest Now [v.1]

The still-unofficial Draft-Clark PR team has rented an office one block from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, apparently before they’ve received any donations (but after soliciting $100k in pledged donations, which may become reality if the General announces he’s running).  I’d love to know where their money is coming from.

Also, the MoveonPAC results have been out for a week, and I only today noticed that they break out the write-in votes at the very bottom: Clark pulled in almost 1% of the vote, placing him above Sharpton.

Sophie rang back at the eighth moment, and I and I headed out to Lincoln to meet her and the infamous bust, for a little water and sun (and large noisy families!).  It was wonderful; at 86 she still swims diagonally across the lake and back, and was sharp as a tack, up to her biting witticisms about the families around us [next to us, and the source for many of them, was a family of 15 in which all the adults made lots of noise and ran about, and the kids were sedate and quiet].  Before we left, Inna noted that people were so modest around here (in the US in general) that we had bathing suits made for little kids, and none ran about naked…

As if on cue, a pair of young’uns of 3 and 4 appeared, one popping up out of the water and another waddling over towards her down the beach, both actively working their way out of their swimsuits, in which comparative freedom they remained until we all returned home fifteen minutes later.  We all felt better about it.

RUMSFELD :  “I don’t know anybody in any government or any intelligence agency who suggested that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons. That’s fact number one.” [6/24/2003] 

CHENEY, on Meet the Press :  “Let

Inna and I are trying to find Sophie today, but that Walden maven is eluding us.

Something about the error distribution in GQR’s phone survey bothers me.  Particularly given the lack of detail on how they carried it out…