News you can use | Michael Tomasky

As some of you will recall I live in Montgomery County, Maryland, among the finest of America's 3,100-odd counties (yes, I'm being serious) in so many ways. Except for one thing. Power goes out like every other week.

Yesterday morning, we had frightening electrical storms. Our power died on us two or three times, but miraculously each time came back on. This morning, however, we weren't so lucky. Around 9:00, while I was on the train coming in, Sarah called me to say that the power went...