Dr. Bill Roy: "How can we still call it 'Labor Day'?"

Now up at Discomfit Magazine [excerpt]: "The summer is winding down, as always more quickly than we expect. Our final fling was centered around going back to the land of my birth and youth.--and making a speech! I told an Illinois audience I would use the opening line their Senator Barack Obama used in Topeka a few months ago. Obama, referring to his Kansas-born mother and her parents who substantially reared him, said simply, 'I am home again.' " Read more.