Yes, it's late in the evening and I'm writing this in the midst of working on some locomotives for Microsoft's Train Simulator. Several points:

1. I am disappointed that Representative Gephardt didn't finish better. I liked him for some reason, primarily because I thought that he was a) an experienced hand in Washington and b) didn't campaign like Dean (i.e. "I hate George Bush and by the way, my name's Howard Dean!")

2. I am downright surprised that John Kerry won. I, like most other conventional wisdomeers, had written Kerry off. I didn't yet write off the ability of Kerry to spend a lot of money, but I had been expecting him to go quietly into obscurity.

At the same time, I'd been expecting him (before things got started) to be a formidable candidate, due to various factors which at present don't seem to matter. Those factors include his reputation as a Northeastern liberal, his initials, his ostensible experience, and whatnot. Go figure.

3. Hooray for John Edwards. Sure he's a slimeball, but he's a Southern slimeball, and I'm more inclined to root for ours than I am for Vermont's. Somewhere within the depths of the National Review website is an article by Byron York about how Edwards broke some rules to slam Charles Pickering, but that's neither here nor there.

4. Dean sounded like he was trying out for the job once held by 'Mean Gene' Okerlund, namely the announcer for Saturday afternoon WWF wrestling matches. Either that, or the job held by Richard Dawson in Running Man.

That's all. My brain, it is tired.

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