Connie Allenbury is an OffTheBus grassroots correspondent. Each week she contributes a campaign journal documenting her life out on the trail.

For more than eighteen months, I have been working what friends and colleagues refer to as the "greenest and grassiest" of rooted campaign efforts, i.e. the...

Biden-Palin Debate, a.k.a. Sit-Com meets Semi-Reality T.V.

Setting

Our Biden party, consisted of 8 Democrats, (3 women, 5 men,) and 1 Independent (woman) and 1 3rd Party voter (man). We met at our home in Cambridge, Ma. The ground rules were that people had to self-monitor their tequila penalties: every...

Biden-Palin Debate, a.k.a. Sit-Com meets Semi-Reality T.V.

Setting

Our Biden party, consisted of 8 Democrats, (3 women, 5 men,) and 1 Independent (woman) and 1 3rd Party voter (man). We met at our home in Cambridge, Ma. The ground rules were that people had to self-monitor their tequila penalties: every...

P.U.M.A.: Pestilential'd Umbrage, Manners Absentia

Since The Times prints only the news "that's fit to print," and since my other sources of dead-tree reading material come anywhere from a week to three months behind breaking events, it was only a few days ago that I heard what...