Wednesday September 28

Four folks at the beginning, eight or nine at the end. Someone stopped by to tell us that Senator John McCain wanted to cut defense spending by cutting veterans' benefits. I think that he meant an obscure-to-me 2008 argument about the best way to structure college tuition benefits for veterans. Our visitor's proposed solution is to encourage Howard Dean, one-time government of Vermont, to break off from the Democrats to form a new political party, maybe called the Pragmacrats, emphasizing campaign finance reform. It would take a lot of work to make that real -- maybe even more than the hour a day which the vigil asks.