Well, I don't know about stock piling the tear gas. I was visiting around over at the conference at the U of MN this weekend--it was an activist organizing conference for the anti-war folks coming to to St Paul to the storm the castle while the Repubs are in town for their convention.

Lots of energy and excitement, but also lots of trepidation at the same time.

We'll be storming the castle with bells on, of course. Hard to know how many will show up. Meetings with the City of St Paul are ongoing, trying to figure out a way to do legitimate in their faces protests instead of those god awful censorship pens they've been putting everyone in since the Dem convention of 2000.

LOTS of indie/non-affiliated to a political party activists ruminating, gossiping, etc over what a great year it is for an independent (rather than a third party) candidate to get into the horse race.

We'll see how she rolls.