It's New Year's Eve.

In a couple of days, the future of this Republic will have its beginning-or its end, in Iowa.

One of the frustrating parts of living in this area that, regardless of affiliation, we are kind of at the tail end of the Pepsi Challenge: Our choice comes in November. We don't really have much of a say in what candidate we will run, just whether we vote for them or not.

At any rate, I'm hoping for the best. I'm listening to Neil Young, and hoping that, by the end of the week, we'll know that this is somewhere...

We'd be interested in hearing who people are backing and why. That is, after you recover from your hangovers.