That's right ... the Sunday before perhaps the most historic elections in the modern history of our country and I will not have one last column urging you to vote for Barack Obama.

Some things are more important.

One them is sports. Not the games themselves, but what they mean to the sub-cultures within the larger one.

The celebration since the Phillies won the World Series Sunday -- and the parade Friday -- prove that sports, like music and art and music, can unit where politics only widen the great divide.

Millions of people joining together, and probably not one word was uttered about Obama or McCain -- let alone Sarah Palin's wardrobe, Joe Biden's Foot in Mouth disease, Joe The (alleged) Plumber, William Ayers, etc.

That's why my column didn't go there.

By stayed tuned here -- at "My Back Pages" -- for last thoughts on the election.