I’ve noticed that before, when people asked me how I was doing, I would say, “I’m surviving.” Now, I’ve become partial to lamenting that I’m dying. I just now noticed the drastic difference in diction. How am I going to survive a year here?

When Dick Morris was talking, he said that the political process was becoming more democratic. Way back when (before I heard him talk), I said the Miers nomination was going to show bloggers just how irrelevant they were. Lo and behold, Miers withdraws. It looks like we really are entering a new age of politics.