My peers.

After the Virginia Tech victory in a football game a couple of nights ago: An estimated 1,500 people jammed North Main Street in an alcohol-fueled victory party. The crowd flip-flopped between benign “Let’s go Hokies” chants and profanity-laden choruses against Miami for several hours as police quietly allowed the group to celebrate. As the morning …

Putting the…um…”draiser” back in “fundraiser.”

Last night, I went to the annual Montgomery County Democrats Dinner, held just down the street from me in Blacksburg. There were about 140 people in attendance, nearly all of whom were old and white, plus the Virginia Tech Young Democrats, who were working at the event. (The president of which actually attended in a …

The LaRouchies are coming!

There are LaRouchies all over Blacksburg and throughout the Virginia Tech campus. The nutcases are collecting signatures to get Lyndon LaRouche on the ballot. LaRouche, of course, is completely insane, and a convicted criminal, at that. (Swindling old folks and tax evasion.) Worse than collecting signatures, they’re handing out copies of LaRouche’s paranoid-delusional newspaper, which …