The midterm elections...

...are a week from next Tuesday. Don't forget to vote; make your voice heard!

Just don't read Timothy Egan's opinion piece in the Times. It's too depressing:

This year, the Koch brothers and their extensions ... have operations in at least 35 states, and will spend somewhere north of $120 million to ensure a Congress that will do their bidding. Spending by outside groups has gone to $1 billion in 2012 from $52 million in 2000.