I thought I'd disappear and pop back up around election day. I worked on a piece about the transforming Texan electoral map and everything. Then I got struck down by appendicitis and am only now out of the hospital. Expect a flurry of posts this week, as I'm on a week of bed rest that will be spent entirely in catching up on backlogged pieces, writeups, and reviews. I'm also going to write a followup to a review I did earlier this year of a doc (the only one out) about President-elect Obama, so watch for that.