Jen and I are knee-deep in two freelance projects that will simultaneously eat all our free time and also provide much-needed capital in our bank accounts. They are both very exciting projects, and should be challenging to work on together. Meanwhile, I’m juggling three separate home improvement projects right now- grouting the tub, wiring the backyard, and finishing the deck. Sleep? Bah. For lightweights.

Sen. John McCain was on NPR yesterday talking about campaign-finance reform and sounding like the intelligent, free-thinking man he is. He brought up a very good point about advertising during elections: We, the citizens, own the airwaves, leasing time on them out to the big communication companies. Instead of mandating that equal free airtime be provided to each of the candidates, we instead let the conglomerates sell time for campaign ads to PACs, who devise attack ads designed to blur the facts and smear the opponents. Originally, this idea was built in to the reform bill, but the telecommunications lobby shot it down. Imagine a campaign cycle dominated by debate and discourse instead of mudslinging?

Note: This will be the last vaguely political thing I write here for a while. I’m going to get off the soapbox and put my high horse away. Thanks for indulging me.