You Didn't Get to Heaven But You Made It Close

Congratulations to Mr. John Middleton for correctly naming "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve as the Thursday Song of the Day.

If McCain is going to win this election, it will because he can communicate an essential truth — that people in a great and successful nation do not want change for its own sake. But they do realize that it’s only through careful reform that they can preserve what they and their ancestors have so laboriously built.

David Brooks--"The Coming Activist Age" in yesterday's NY Times.