Like everybody else, I'm keeping a close eye on Isaac. How will it affect the Republican convention?

The national political science conference, which I attended religiously for years, will be at New Orleans next week. My twitterfeed is full of political scientists in full scale, freak out mode. Truthfully, APSA is a miserable affair, and I think that everybody is secretly hoping that it gets cancelled. (Dudes, party at my place!) 

Hopefully, this hurricane will be minor, not for the sake of some tweedy academics, but for the people of New Orleans.