These reflections are also relevant because we stand on the verge of another election debacle. Both sides are lawyered up and itching for a fight. Whatever good will between the parties that managed to survive the 2000 recount has subsequently been squandered by the Bush administration's policy of pushing it's agenda by hook or by crook, loyal opposition and allies and world opinion and facts and evidence and the "reality-based community" be damned.

As you have by now ascertained--or divined, as the Bush camp might put it--I will not be voting for George W. Bush this time, either.

But this time there is no doubt in my mind that I am making the right decision.