Today I decorated a potato at a breast cancer fund-raiser and attended a political town hall meeting with John Sarbanes. Only one of them was worth my time because at the end of it I had a decorated potato. The other was an hour of my life wasted listening to sob stories and people pontificating for minutes on end while pretending to ask a question, answered by liberal platitudes and crowd pleasing responses.

Of the useful things I did learn is that Congressman Sarbanes has been in office for fifteen months, sits on the committees that oversee national parks, education, and government reform. He is also an uncommitted superdelegate (if there had been a phone booth around he would have shown us his superdelegate costume) and said that he felt the trend among his fellow superdelegates would be to favor the candidate who was the most positive.

There's also a woman in the northeast who believes that the press has too much freedom and all reports of military movements and exercises should be delayed for 3 months like they were for her and everyone else during the Korean War. I couldn't keep from snickering, but the Congressman did a good job of changing the question around to a media consolidation issue.

On the plus side, now I know it's not an experience not worth repeating.

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