Following in the footsteps of John Scalzi, I have been chosen to contribute to the Detroit News Weblog for the next month. I will be posting there on a daily or near-daily basis, just brief entries about the political campaign and politics in general. Feel free to drop by and tell me I'm full of it, or read some of the other folks they have blogging there.
Yes, it's yet another thing to distract me from posting here, but I'll try and keep all of the balls in the air at once.
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