(NAFADOYBIMSCOM, or NAtional Finish A Draft Of Your Book I Mean Seriously Come On Month, continues apace. Also, I had a great time in San Francisco on the final leg of my book tour. More on both later.)

This is an avowedly apolitical blog, but there are times in life when you must put aside your avowedly apolitical values in order to make a stand for something you sort of believe in, and this year anyway, I sort of believe in capital-c Change, so I'm going to make some endorsements.

In races for the U.S. Congress and Senate, I'm pretty sure that we should all vote for the Democratic candidate this particular year, even if that Democrat is sort of an idiot and possibly corrupt, because there needs to be a kind of accountability in the executive branch that does not currently exist. But the one Democrat I would like to particularly endorse three candidates, not that this will affect anyone's vote:

First, there is Montana's Jon Tester. I don't know all that much about Tester's political positions, but I do know this: He only has seven fingers. We need more seven-fingered senators.

I also very much like Jim Webb in Virginia, because A. he is a pretty good novelist, and B. unlike almost everyone in Congress, he has an actual family member fighting in Iraq, although C. he doesn't constantly talk about it, because D. he has integrity, which is E. more than can be said for his disgustingly racist opponent.

I'm also a big fan of Claire McCaskill in Missouri, because she worked as a waitress for six years, while her opponent, Jim Talent, looks like a dweeb. I mean, seriously. Also, he is opposed to stem cell research.