(I wanted to add this link below my domestic entry, but for some reason, it messed up the Nader one, so I put it at the beginning.) It's a column from "Fred On Everything" that scares the hell out of me--because it rings so true:
http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm

Welcomed Frank and Marybeth about 11:30 and had a wonderful day. Pat didn't get up from his morning nap until 1:00 and after helping him wash and dress, I served lunch about 2:15. Pulled together the meal with just had what I happened to have in the house: tuna salad, a big green salad, crystal pickles, sliced hb eggs and tomatoes, and three kinds of bread. Made an apple crisp for dessert, which went over big.
Naturally, we talked and talked. These Californians ooh and aahed over the glorious color of the trees so beautifully displayed in the big windows at the back of the house. They've been here several times before--the last time in June for our anniversary, but never in the fall. They left a little after 4:00 to get back to Baltimore before dark. What a neat day!

Later: Here's a column by Chris Hedges in "Truthdig" that delineates all the reasons I voted for Ralph Nader for president a half hour ago:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081103_only_nader_is_right_on_the_issues/