How to waste time on a Friday afternoon

Here in the wonderful world of blogging, time is truly relative -- as in the past fades fast, the future is amorphous and the present is all-consuming. But for the rest of you, well, we know you're studiously staring at the computer screen trying to show the boss in the corner office how hard at work you are.

So waste some time with this: Slate's candidate tracker, which graphically shows where the candidates have been busy with appearances. It took forever to load on our workhorse of a laptop but once it does fire up it's fun to see how far this campaign has come. Especially when you look at the lists of the fallen on the right hand side, running alphabetically for the Democrats from Joe Biden to Bill Richardson, and for the Republicans from Sam Brownback to Fred Thompson. And note that the tracker still shows Ron Paul slogging away, even if he seems to have sent the horse back to the barn.

Ah, the memories.

-- Scott Martelle

Comments

[Terribly Smart]

they'll let anybody work for the Times. I swear.

(Just like we let anybody comment. Except we don't hide behind false names on our writing. Thanks for taking the time.)

[Keith]

I think Obama should apologize profusely and repeatedly for this.

(For wasting time on a Friday afternoon?)

[ART DEKKO]

WELL, YOU ZAPPED MY PRO-PRESIDENT RON PAUL COMMENT. YOU WILL PROBABLY ZAP THIS ONE ALSO.

WE WILL VOTE ONLY FOR PRESIDENT PAUL IN NOVEMBER, REGARDLESS OF YOUR SUPPRESSION (UN-ABASHED MEDIA). HOW YOU HATE TO PRINT THE "TRUTH".

GO RON PAUL!

(This time you didn't use naughty language or acronyms.)