The first thing I want to address is the idea floating around out there and yes in the back of my mind that the impending storm is somehow divine intervention intended to teach the Republicans a lesson. I'll admit the irony of this storm hitting almost three years to the day of Katrinas landfall and the begining of the Republican convention all happening at once does make you want to believe in a God with a sense of poetic justice but in truth the fact that lives may be lost diminishes the amount of humor one could find in such events. There will of course be some conspiracy theories involving Obama, the Chinese and weather manipulation but on the whole most people would rather watch reporters standing in the rain telling us how it is raining than sit through a series of Republicans giving speaches while Lee Greenwoods song "Proud to be an American" is played ad naseum. I hope the storm lives down to the medias expections but love the idea that their over the top coverage has taking whatever steam was left in the McCain campaign and momentarily surpressed it. I haven't even touched on the chose of Sara Palen as VP yet. I'll leave that for our next visit. For now, and I truly mean this I hope everyone who is able to be evacuated can be and those who can't somehow ride out the storm with little to no serious damage.

Admit it, you think reporters standing in a downpour telling us how they are standing in a downpour is indeed the dumbest bit in news reporting ever.