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Long day of travel. Little sleep. Online for a little bit, but fading fast. More later…

Boston.com: “New England is at once sleepless, breathless, and full of hope. David Ortiz and the Red Sox just beat the Yankees in two extra-inning playoff games on the same calendar day. This century-long Sox-Yankee show, featuring themes of revenge and redemption, moves back to New York tonight.”

The Astros also had a walk-off win tonight. Jeff Kent, the former San Francisco Giant hit a game-winning home-run in the bottom of the 9th, ending a game which had been scoreless up to that point.

Amazing night of baseball. Would that all the games could be this exciting. Now if only Boston would beat the damn Yankees.

I was talking with my friend Brad yesterday, while waiting to go to the airport in Durango. He told me about something called the ‘Starve the Beast’ theory being applied by the Republican party, when it comes to their tax-and-spend implementation — a practice which is oddly opposed to everything their party is supposed to represent.

The idea is this: Government, and in particular Social Security, is a beast that they want to go away. Nobody in their right mind would make killing Social Security part of their campaign platform, so if you want to kill Social Security, the only way to do it is to ‘Starve the Beast’.

You lower taxes. You increase spending. (Wars are a very good way to do the latter.) You blow the budget. You let the economy falter. Eventually it becomes painfully obvious that you have to kill large government programs like Social Security.

Now I’m not in a position to say that this is what Bush was planning on doing, but so far it fits very well with what’s actually been done. I’ll leave it up to you to decide what you think. Just please vote this November.