A campaign season full of Bush-Gore seemed so boring until each made an interesting vice-presidential pick: one VP choice has an openly gay daughter and the other is an orthodox Jew.
Last Sunday, as I walked past the Washington monument, I saw signs that read: "Gun control is racist, sexist, and classist," "fascist go home," "Rapists hate gun owners," and (my favorite) "A good grip: my idea of gun control." As you may have guessed, I was not at the Million Mom March, which was full of mothers fearful of recent school shootings, but at a nearby counter-demonstration, put on by a newly formed anti-gun control group calling themselves the Second Amendment Sisters. The whole point of the Sisters' demonstration, to my mind, was to try to show the softer side to the NRA.