The Canada piece is done. Okay, that’s not true. But it’s in NRHQ’s hands. Whether they throw it back in my face, wrapped around a brick, remains to be seen. This has been the busiest few weeks I’ve had in years. I’ve been to Ohio, Canada, and London as well as to California twice in less than a month all the while I’ve had a pile of stuff to write, scads of stuff to do and a dog’s insatiable desire to be placated to placate. I don’t have to leave town again for two whole weeks and it feels great. So let me get back into the fray. First: my predictions. I am actually quite bullish. I think Coleman and Talent both win and — if the weather stays bleak — Chambliss might have a pretty good shot too. Cornyn will win but by a narrower margin than people expect. Hutchinson loses. I think a betting man would bet against Sunnunu, but I have hope because the down-ticket Republicans are very popular. And Louisiana goes into a run-off. Also, I predict that super-intelligent apes will never run the planet but we might discover that dolphins are incredibly intelligent, but despite those laughing sounds they make actually have no sense of humor whatsoever and are actually shockingly bigoted against their fellow mamillian sea creatures (“Orca scum” and such). We will also conclude that we must pay them for the crimes we committed against them when we were ignorant of their sentience, but fortunately they’ll accept herring as currency. The term vegetarianism will disappear from common usage as biotechnology makes it possible to grow super tastey and healthy meat in huge industrial vats without ever harming animals. This will cause a massive slaughter of cows who cannot live on their own without human aid. The dolphins will encourage us to push the cows into the sea.