FYI - I'm heading to France tomorrow...

UPDATE: I'm bumping this message up to remind folks - I'm out the door to airport, try to play nicely while I'm gone. :-) JOHN

...to visit Chris in Paris, drink wine, take in the sun, and overall explain to the Europeans that a lot of us hate Bush too.

In the interim, Michael in NYC, David in Kentucky and our newest guest blogger, Rob in Baltimore, will hopefully be taking up the slack (and if they don't, they're dead). Rob's quite an interesting fellow, has an amazing political mind, and specializes in election campaigns, so I've asked him to focus heavily on his analysis of the election, polls, etc.

I'll still be blogging till noon Monday, then I'll probably be offline until Friday evening (apparently there's no phone in the place we're staying outside of Nice), but I may get antsy and find an Internet cafe to see what you're all up to before then.

Perhaps Michael can make sure he posts some good open threads throughout the day for you to amuse yourselves, beat up on Jeff, etc. :-)

Enjoy the week. JOHN