I read a great book this fall called Are We Rome? http://www.arewerome.com/ I'm beginning to think that all most people want is bread and circuses. But then I remember all the average people who've become involved in the Democratic party this year and I think about my friend's dad in PA, who got a diagnosis of intestinal *cancer* and went out the next day to change his lifelong party affiliation just so he could have a chance to vote for someone in whom he believes, and I remember that "good news doesn't sell newspapers." Without controversey, the talking heads have nothing to talk about. And then I try to remember to breathe.

We're going to be okay. Hillary Clinton and James Carville are not going to take down the Democratic party. Obama's going to keep on being himself and doing what's been working. Bill Richardson will get over being called bad names and the other Superdelegates won't be cowed by being called bad names, either. The rules will not be suspended for the Prom Queen. Votes will be counted and democracy will prevail. The ghost of Lee Atwater will go back to sleep.