At least they're going to shut down the city for a reason

First, Kerry hinted that he might delay accepting his party's nomination at thus summer's Democratic Convention in Boston. Then this week it was revealed that, because of security concerns, all highways and mass transit near the central location of the confab would be shut down. That had people wondering just what kind of farce this was getting to be. Kerry has the votes for the nomination, and we're shutting down half a city to formalize it -- but then we're not formalizing it? What kind of farce would that be?

Yesterday, someone finally thought all this through, and Kerry backed off on the plan to delay acceptance.