The Green Miles is blogging today from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as I return from a busy four days in Austin at Netroots Nation, my first blogger convention. Heartening to hear how highly regarded RK is among other bloggers, many told me they only hope that some day their state's progressive blog is as widely-read and well-respected as RK.
I'll be boarding my connecting flight in a few minutes but I wanted to pull out the laptop and repay Glenn Nye for the hospitality and ice-cold Shiner Bock I enjoyed on Saturday evening thanks to his supporters in Texas. I met Glenn (far right) for the first time at a reception in his honor on the front lawn of a downtown Austin business. Hopes were high that Glenn will be able to take down Thelma "Karl Rove is My Homeboy" Drake this November. I wish there had been more Virginia bloggers there, but I don't think it was publicized very well, I only noticed the reception mentioned on a Texas blog Saturday morning.
Anyway, take a few dollars from that $600 that Thelma Drake voted to borrow from your grandkids to give you as a rebate check and give it to Glenn.
So what did I miss back in Virginia? Did something totally insane happen, like oh, I don't know, a candidate for Senate dismissing health care for kids as welfare? Ha, that would be crazy!