Boy, you never know what's going to come up as a candidate, do you? Turns out that next Sunday, I'll be chatting with what looks like the largest Swedish expeditionary force since Gustavus Adolphus, a delegation from that country's Social Democratic Party, who will be here to observe the tail-end of the US election campaign up close and personal.
Yes, that's right; I'll be spending next Sunday morning talking with a group of actual, real-live socialists. And I didn't even have to contribute hundreds of dollars under an assumed name in order to do it!
They're sponsored by the State Department, the Swedish embassy, the local branch of the Institute for International Education, and something called the Meridian International Center (whose DC home is right next door to one of my favorite parks in the city).
Actually, we probably won't be talking much about policy. This particular group is especially interested in our use of new media, including the radio show, the Blog Talk Radio show, the blog, and our use of social networking. I'm still hoping to lasso one of them for an appearance on the BTR show next week, but nothing's definite yet.