Gas mains explode, man holes shoot pillars of fire, power goes out under the sweltering sun, and Hootie & the Blowfish cover Cheap Trick as Ned and Joe square off among the chaos!

A thrilling recap of Stamford's "Live At Five" campaign showdown!  

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Interest in this race is so intense people will read anything!

After reading David Brooks' screed yesterday about the "Liberal Inquisition" we are apparently carrying out against anti-war Democrats, I couldn't help but do a double-take when someone pointed me to two letters which appeared side-by-side in a Connecticut paper today.  

Brooks claims that we're a bunch of rabid sheep, or fodder for loose cannons, or agents for his arch-nemesis, Barbra Streisand, or... I don't know, I can't keep up with all the oxymoronic descriptions of This Thing of Ours that are spewing forth from the Right Wing Hate Noise Machine.

But these two letters - I was almost tempted to black out the names of the candidates to see if you could tell.  They tell the opposite story of the fable Brooks is spinning.