The polled gender gap is huge, and growing. And women tend to vote more. It’s not impossible that Harris could land a decisive win. (View Post)

Here it’s 28C, rising towards 30, sunny and humid. But looks like any Virginia flooding will be minor, thankfully. And, yes, a lot of houses have full Halloween decking out already, and it’s not even… (View Post)

Morning on the James River, with dog. White dot on the far bank is a stork or heron, watching the Carolina drift wood going by. Site of the earliest surviving British settlements in the Americas. And… (View Post)

I’m pretty close to it myself (the ‘hardly watches the BBC’, not the age bracket!). The radio, on the other hand, is almost always on when I’m in, or driving. (View Post)

Well there was a ‘no travelling’ advisory, and the weather conditions were such that I clearly took a significant risk, which could have ended differently. But the interstate was relatively busy and … (View Post)