Summer's End

It's Labor Day weekend, the traditional end of summer. We've had an unusually cool and cloudy August and now the remnants of hurricane Ernesto are blowing in to make the start of September rainy as well.

It is also the full-on start of the campaigning season. Despite the unseasonable temperatures, Ohio has a "hot" race for governor already warming up. One major contender wields too much state power now, considers his personal religion "right" and others "wrong" and spies this race as a stepping stone to the White House. God forbid. Any God.

Next weekend I'm making a one-day trip to another place famous (infamous?) for politics -- Chicago. Take the first flight in the morning, spend the day, eat some Gino's East pizza and back on the last flight out of Midway. Normally, I'd come back just in time for Bacchanalia, but alas, that is no more.

And September used to be the start of the new television season. Now it's staggered throughout the Fall. Hopefully, something will come along to assuage my heartbreak over the cancellation of Stargate SG1. And make the foul taste of all the mudslinging political commercials easier to swallow.

Oh, and on the subject of TV, the very week after I blogged about Tuesday nights on Food Network, they split up the two shows I wrote about. Ham on the Street is now on Wednesday nights. Bastards.