John at Purple State of Mind is doing a really good job of commenting on the DNC. I especially enjoyed today’s post about Joe Biden and that peculiar stretch of land on the north central east coast he’s from, and how it might help in the election:

Down in southern Delaware, northeastern Maryland and eastern Virginia, Chesapeake Bay country, people use a fantastic word to describe the region: Delmarva. Get it? Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. Actually, it sounds more like the invention of a clever adman. It’s often used to describe friends chicken, for instance, as in, “That was delmarvalous!’ I dream of towns where all the girl children go by the name Delmarva and the boys by Delvamar.

Be that as it may, I asked myself last night whether the Democratic nominee for vice president, Senator Joseph Biden was Delmarvalous or just pure Delaware. If he’s the former, then Barack Obama may have made a better choice than I realized. If he’s just Delaware, which is to say bland as Interstate 95, then maybe he’s less than meets the eye.

You should read the whole post. It’s great. Also, the post from yesterday, casting the Clintons as the lead characters in a Greek tragedy, is some lovely and refreshing literary political commentary, too.