And they're off!

MANIFESTO

Apparently the Democratic National Convention began last evening. Like the Olympics, I can't get too excited about it, thinking that it's an exercise whose time has come and gone. (Or, as Kevin Drum says, "I've heard all (or most) of it before, I'm hyper-aware that it's all heavily staged and that every word is designed for a particular purpose, etc. etc. Because of this, to me personally, political speeches seem like specimens, not things that I myself have any genuine connection to.") At any rate, I find reading about it to be ever so much more entertaining than actually viewing it, and with every blogger and his uncle in Denver, there's no shortage of written reaction.