We have been told repeatedly that "Ohio will decide the election!" and the responsibility is nerve-racking.

At first I tried to be civic-minded, and worked constructively to register college students. But by late September I was regularly overdosing on blogs, frequently whipped into a froth of outraged ranting.

I was not alone.

Consider this disturbing little dose of reality: Informal polls taken by Barnes & Noble store managers indicate that some 70 percent of customers say they have no intention of actually reading the political attack books that they buy.

Aside from partisans for the Macintosh, there are also many determined fans of a smaller, hand-held device who are so united in their devotion that they form a kind of secret society.

No, not iPod fans.

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Born in 1854, poet Arthur Rimbaud was every inch a modern punk star. There was the same love of drugs, cigarettes, long hair, perfectly grungy clothing and contempt for the bourgeoisie. But most of all, there was the poetry – reams of it, which began appearing when Rimbaud was fourteen: rapturous, hallucinogenic, pyrotechnical, and unlike anything anyone had ever heard before.