“It is all for show and, frankly, this show is getting quite tiresome to the American traveling public that has gotten fed up with mounting delays and FAA mismanagement that has degraded the system during the current administration,” National Air Traffic Controllers Association spokesman Doug Church said.

“Travel is down for Thanksgiving in general,” concurred Geri Jones, president of Accent on Travel in Henrico County.

Volunteers for the presidential candidates unofficially created campaign headquarters, held grass roots rallies, handed out virtual buttons and T-shirts, and signed up actual voters in the vast virtual world developed by San Francisco-based Linden Lab. Many people decided to spend Election Day as their avatars — and they weren’t alone.

After being blinded in battle, the World War II veteran was savaged by feelings of despair and worthlessness.

Big Read programs
continue at the library
Two talks are on tap this week at branches of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library as part of the Big Read.
M.Thomas Inge will be at the Louisa County Library at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, and Nick Patler will speak at the Greene Country Library at 7 p.m. Thursday.
Inge, a professor of humanities at Randolph-Macon College, will speak on “To Kill a Prejudice: Race Relations in Twain, Faulkner and Harper Lee.” Patler, and author and historian, will discuss “Killing the Mockingbird: Historical and Contemporary Efforts to Ban to Kill a Mockingbird.”
The library also will host two book discussions.