Live Blogging The Democratic Convention

• Which episode of Mad Men are we up to?
• I've decided that the female pole vaulters have the best bodies of all the women at the Olympics. The swimmers were too bulked up; the runners too skinny; the gymnasts had no boobs; and the discus throwers had testicles. But the pole vaulters, even more than the volleyball players, were tall and toned. Congratulations, pole vaulters!
• I saw Uncle Allan do shots this weekend. Of alcohol! Congratulations, Uncle Allan!
• Schwartz will never, EVER, give up hope of Hillary Clinton being President. Hopefully, she can dissuade him of that during her speech tomorrow. If not, she and I are going to have a big problem.
• I saw a two-minute clip today from a documentary called "Twelve Days In September," about the 1972 Munich Olympics. The clip was a montage of various events played against Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir." It was incredible and made me re-think my entire perception of Led Zeppelin.
• McCain had an ad out today featuring a former Hillary supporter who's now supporting him. Hillary responded with an ad stating, "I am Hillary Clinton and I do not support that message."
• The more I think about it, the more I hold the vote in favor of the Iraq war against us.
• There was a great article about race and the election in a recent New York Magazine. Two points stuck out:
• 1. The subtext of Michelle Obama's comment about being proud of her country for the first time, and maybe the reason so many got upset about it, was that it had a racial overtone. What some though she was really saying was that, for the first time in her adult life, a black man was getting a fair shot. One woman said, “When I look at Michelle, Barack doesn’t have to be any blacker for me.”
• 2. If Obama is elected to two terms, there will be a generation of 10-year-olds who have only known a black president. Putting aside what that would mean to the African-American community, it will be much harder for any of the African-American kids to think that the government is run only by white men.
• Nilda says Michelle Obama is "more than good."
• Caroline Kennedy's speaking. Let's catch up on Generation Kill!