August 26, 6:27 p.m., en route to Tampa and the Republican National Convention, Jet Blue Flight 985, Seat 25D.

With apologies to the Battling Bastards of Bataan:

We’re the blogging bastards of Tampa Bay,
Here to write what the right will say,
Of restoring the faith the old-fashioned way,
With the lash, the rack, and the auto-da-fé.