An increase in the number of political science papers that arepresented at multiple academic conferences does not, as NelsonDometrius recognizes, constitute one of the major existential crisesof the twenty-first century. Indeed, I doubt that it would even makeit onto anyone's list of the top hundred issues currentlyconfronting the discipline of political science. Nonetheless, itdoes warrant more attention than it has received in the past (which,insofar as I am aware, is approximately none at all).