These things don't just happen. We don't wake up one day and hear that the U.S. Department of Justice is exploring options for legally postponing our four year visit to the presidential polls. At least I pray to god we don't.

So here's how all of this came about. The chairman of the formerly obscure US Election Commission wonders some time ago about what plans are in place if a catastrophe forced the postponement of elections. If I understand it correctly, that's this guys job. So he sends a friendly little memo to his pals over at DHS hoping they can help him out. DHS, however, despite a myriad of options, chooses to ignore said letter.

So guess who our formerly unknown chairman talks to next? Why, it's that pesky liberal rag, the Washington Post. And any reporter worth her salt, picks up the phone and calls the folks over at DHS to say, hey what about this? And then the real circus begins. All of which just goes to show you - there's no sillier time of year than the four months preceding a presidential election. It HAS to be that -- because the alternative theories are too terrifying for me to contemplate.