Little posting of late

I'm sorry to have not posted much here lately. I'll do better next week.

Here in my office (I call it the Skeptic Tank), I've spent the past two weeks reading the dozens if not hundreds of letters people write supporting or condemning a candidate or an issue. But I'm almost done, and maybe tomorrow things can get more back to normal.

In the evenings, I go home and help my first-grade son read his third-grade level reading books. And I talk with my seventh-grade son about what he's learning in science class (right now they're talking about viscosity). And my ninth-grade daughter and I talk about what might keep her from making straight A's this six weeks. Before she goes to bed, she practices her guitar. Sometimes my daughter helps her youngest brother with his reading. She has this knack for working with little kids. It's the 12-year-old brother types that really annoy her.

All of that is much more interesting than reading another letter about a given candidate, you know? If I thought every letter was written by the person signing the letter, that would be one thing. But we all know that candidates provide talking points or even entire letters for their supporters to sign and send in.

Thankfully, it will all be over soon.

On Nov. 8, we can talk about something else. Like the 2008 presidential primary.

By the way, not every letter is getting in the paper. We just plain don't have the space. This morning, we've put all the letters and guest columns that aren't getting in and putting them on the Web site.