Out of Cheese

I’ve been impressed, disappointed, and amused at the reaction to my weekend note suggesting how to Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, who served in Congress from 1992 to 1994. (Side note: Marjorie’s husband Ed, himself a former member of Congress, is currently on trial for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars after getting caught up in one of the Nigerian spam scams.)

Of course, William and everyone else who read my note had no way of knowing this. I’ve put most of that background aside in the past six years, since I turned to computer science at Stanford instead of polisci. But I still read Roll Call twice a week, and while I’m not a political junkie by any means — I’m much more interested in policy than political games — I’m not too far out of touch with that side of my life. So anything I do with politics these days is definitely much more of getting back into it than wandering in for the first time.