Why is Megan née Householder voting for President Bush? Let her list the ways.

I'm home from a day at the Ohio Aviation Association 2004 Fall Conference. The conference was a good one, held at the incredibly classy Conference Center at North Pointe, even though the day's weather was dreary and I was a bit under it [You hurt your back washing dishes last night and got up earlier than usual this morning. And those are the cleanest dishes you'll ever see! — ed.], so this may be my post for the day.

What's missing from the glorious foliage in the Cleveland Metroparks? One thing: snow.

SPEAKING OF PHOTOGRAPHS: Look for Part II of the 2004 Albany Excursion soon (Part I here).

Canada: land slightly to the north of us. Land of a liberal legal definition of "defamation," so bureaucrats can winnow out free speech they don't particularly like.

The Idiot Nephew meets Jonah Goldberg. Radioactive battle in Tokyo ensues. In a manner of speaking.

The Nobel Foundation is almost exonerated for its awarding peace prizes to the likes of Yasser Arafat, Jimmy Carter and Mikhail Gorbachev:

Edward Prescott, who picked up the Nobel Prize for Economics, said President George W. Bush's tax rate cuts were "pretty small" and should have been bigger.

"What Bush has done has been not very big, it's pretty small," Prescott told CNBC financial news television. "Tax rates were not cut enough," he said.

Lower tax rates provided an incentive to work, Prescott said.

Almost. (Goodness knows how politics let this man win.)

Ramesh Ponnuru talks seminal Eighties bands in politics while Matt Drudge tracks Senator John Edwards' shameless, exploitative political faith healing. Suddenly Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" takes on an entirely new meaning. Your own personal Edwards?

JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH: Depeche Mode has worked its way into current events once before.

IN THE NEWS: Edwards is on the record. Testify!

VINTAGE:

LEST YOU THINK ME GLIB: Two great men, Ronald Reagan and Christopher Reeve, have died, and but days after the death of each the Democratic Party has politicked for lethally destructive embryonic stem-cell research, despite the fact that the conditions tragically facilitating their deaths would not — theoretically or otherwise — be aided by such science.

IDIOT NEPHEW WEIGHS IN: "Stumpquackery" and Kerry of Massareth, Patron Saint of Undecideds and Uncommitted Republicans.

The Idiot Nephew is selling a bumper sticker that's, er, well-suited for its intended targets.

In this case, ten ways to give the senior senator from North Carolina a good reason not to sit down for a week. The Idiot Nephew gives Cheney v. Edwards its just dissertation.

On this day last year snow was falling. We're set for fair skies and temperatures in the mid-sixties for the next week. Count your blessings or curse the sky. Or wait in anticipation; can't be that much longer.

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY: The National Weather Service prognosticates.

New kid on the block: Idiot Nephew. Give him a look-see.