Haven't been posting at all due to the elections. It's been wall to wall for the last few days. But nobody panic. I'm back now.

The blogosphere is obviously distraught over my lack of a column on Tuesday - the first time I've failed to post one on a Tuesday or Friday since I started, back in April. I suppose I could have planned ahead better, and had one ready ahead of time. I knew coming into this week that I'd be too busy to write. But that would have taken foresight, planning, and extra work last week. So, no column.

Also, I was too tired to write one today, so you just have to wait until Friday. Sorry. Suppressing voters really takes it out of you.

About conceding the election:

Kerry conceded, so that's that. According to the news, anyway. But wait! The law! Ohio is going ahead with counting their provisional ballots, as the law requires. There's about 150,000 of them, according to this story.

It's extremely unlikely that Kerry could pick up enough votes to turn Ohio his way, but if he did, hypothetically, then Ohio's government would ratify its slate of electors for Kerry, not Bush. Kerry would win the election.

And wouldn't that be a big kick in the pants. I bet the major parties are all keeping a close eye on the process, and never mind Kerry's concession.