Meantime, here is what may be his shortest short story, a 2 or 3 minute read. www.unm.edu/~gmartin/535...

1) Creating a joke that Barack Obama paraphrased onstage at a campaign event the very next day, and then watching as that joke reversed the “Palin Bounce” that had moved John McCain ahead of him in the polls. Because Sarah Palin really WAS the lipstick on John McCain’s pig.

2) Being (possibly) the only person with four rival candidates ever unanimously elected to be a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention, as each of my fellow candidates voted for me. Five years later, this still blows my mind and gives me warm fuzzies.

As you’ve doubtlessly discovered by now, that’s not exactly what that book is.

Oops. This was Day 19.

He didn’t talk much about him, but did prize the fishing cap Thompson gave him at the end of the semester. He wore it out over the years. I met him a couple times myself, most notably after coating my face with creosote when we picked him up at the airport. I was screaming, it burned so badly! 😆

My dad, who served as faculty liaison to Thompson when he did a lecture series at Syracuse in the early 70s and became a friend of his, gave me this book when I was 13, just so I’d understand who the guy was.

I read it several times myself!

Trickle charge.

That’s hilarious. As I read “weird aubergine visage” I was already guessing RFK Jr. 😆

I’ve got a name for that party, too. The American People’s Party. #thereisanappforthat

itself to be defined by others. For mathematical reasons, I believe that party must be “radical centrist”, positioned so as to draw support from both sides of the duopoly. It must refuse to be drawn into the culture wars, committing only to steadfastly support human and civil rights.