If the sequester 'happens', who is to guarantee the cuts will be made? This government is in complete anarchy, flouting laws and ignoring rules, so who's to say these departments will actually cut the required spending??

I, too, am a fan of 'fat books'. My daughter made the comment once that all my books are so big! And I, also, just finished Les Miserables. It's not difficult to remember the story or the message as it's slow reading, even to a voracious reader like me.

There you go...voodoo economics.

There you go...voodoo economics.

There you go...voodoo economics.

Conventions are a place to physically gather, as you say, but they also give us out here the opportunity to hear speakers we'd never otherwise hear, nor even know of. Personally, I enjoyed the Republican Convention.