AUSTIN, Tx. — Sure enough, I step out of the cab right at the foot of the Austin Convention Center and there’s Howard Dean giving a speech, finger in the air like it’s a Youth of Today show. Keep Austin weird and make Texas blue. Plus my hotel room is clearly going to be the party room — I saw this thing and felt like crying. Brooklyn, we made it!

 FDL/Windy soldiers, I’m looking forward to meeting you. And it appears you won’t have to cancel your plans! It would appear that my panel with Yglesias/Rossmiller/Goldenberg is no longer counterprogrammed against the Digby/Atrios/Krugman/Perlstein juggernaut. We’ll be at 3 p.m. Friday now. See you soon.