Yes! The time has finally arrived for commencement of the first Tea Party Convention! Nerves are fraught as precedents are made right and ... well, right again! Too bad that the two elected politicians pulled out (boo!!!) - there is still (wait for it ... waiiit for it ...) Sarah Palin! The former half governor of Alaska, a state with a population equivalent to my adopted hometown, Kumamoto! How we long to see her vision for leading us out of the wilderness and towards a better upper-middle class world, where all can have their PACs buy their ghost-written books so as to pump up their royalties. There will be more, my friends, no doubt: there will be more.