The same people who want your whole tax form to go on a tiny postcard have made registering to vote an onerous process in Florida. I've done voter registration drives here for decades, going back to the McGovern campaign, but this morning I had to take a class and be certified to register voters.

A retired county prosecutor was in my class, and even she was perplexed by the legal requirements and liabilities the new regulations place on volunteers and their organizations.

Heading to Occupy Miami and need my sign. Dan has a great concept with "Solidarity."

My blighted neighborhood, when I was young, was visited weekly by the library bookmobile. The rear wall of the bus was shelves of science fiction, and I grew up with the great themes of literature and myth retold in short story form as pulp SF compilations.

Man versus robots. The robotic servant turning on his masters. The retirement of humanity as robots ended human labor, and the dramatic consequences.

Change "robots" to "corporations" and the 21st Century prophesy is fulfilled.

Just spent the morning phone canvassing for volunteers, with a few dozen other Obama supporters. Those of us making the calls had signed up online, so we were fairly hardcore. The folks we were calling were past volunteers and supporters from 2008. Our job was to see if they anybody is "in" for 2012, and to try to multiply our numbers by arranging one-on-one meetings for people to have a role in the ground game in my swing state.