if you guys will forgive me, this is a bit of a drive-by 5QT. I’m juggling a couple of projects as I’m writing it, because a PAC that I run here in Louisiana is having its big annual fundraising event next week, and accordingly, it’s a mad scramble to get all the logistics out of the way before it’s a last-minute thing.

Which, as you know if you’ve done events, is impossible. The thing always comes together at the last minute. No matter how hard you try to square it away in advance, you’ll invariably find that you’re hustling right up to the time it starts.

I’m mentioning the event because one of the speakers is The American Spectator’s own publisher, one Melissa Mackenzie. So there’s a plug for Melissa, who’s surely going to knock ‘em dead.

Anyway, I’m working on this thing with my phone’s ringer off, and I’m watching the calls and text messages piling up as I’m writing. We’ll make this light. And speaking of light, Thing Number One is pretty easily disposed of. Namely…