election day!

I love election day. It's so exciting. La la la.

This one I'm nervous about (of course), but still excited. Get this - I voted on a PUNCH CARD. And the voting demonstrator peeps weren't very consistent. The guy showed my partner how to brush off hanging bits, but the woman just told me to "push hard". Grrr. Inconsistent, much?

Now, we wait.

aaaaaaaaack.

I love watching elections at the beginning. Be it television, radio, interweb, I can't get enough of the Olde Media(e) Coverage(e) of the Election(e). The pictures, the colored-in-states-ice-rink (I shit you not, see NBC; I totally want to skate on it), the obtuse babbling of predictions in order to fill time as they wait for results to roll in.

But damn, those red states are so big. It's depressing just looking at the picture.

And both Inez Tenenbaum (SC) and Betty Castor (FL) are loooooosing. Nooooooo! They're my EMILY's list grrrls; this really pisses me off. I want to believe grassroots fundraising and activism work when it comes to elections. I want to have done something good. [Correction: Castor's race has been re-labeled as "too close to call". Go Betty!]

Richmonders, by the way, have elected Doug Wilder (that'd be former GOVERNOR) to be their first in half a century popularly elected mayor. Will someone make a marginally funny farce movie fantasia about this one? They totally should. Shame Doug's too old to successfully run for president now. Maybe he could run for student council instead! But I mock what could be a major step towards unifying a pretty divided city and its Council. Nice job, Richmond.

It is also very depressing to hear the number of Republican voters who appear to have been swayed to Bushishness by their belief that abortion and gayness are fundamentally wrong. They hate us. My Republican workfolk were mostly swayed by their fear and assumption that Bush=fiscal responsibility (seems a little shady, if you ask me); they just don't think the social issues are as important. I can grasp that, though I disagree. But there are these other people who seriously hate the things that just seem so obviously the right thing to do, in my mind. Depressing.

To un-depress myself, I bring you a preposterous sarcastic poll, after hothead:
[Poll #377614]

changing the subject...

I nominate Melissa Nathan the High Empress of Chick Lit Jane Austen Remixes. I just finished her Persuading Annie (that'd be Persuasion a la Bridget Jones/Shopaholic Does Something Really Stupid), and it's every bit as filled with silly goodness as Pride Prejudice & Jasmin Field (roughly the same treatment of Pride & Prejudice). If you love the silly like I love the silly, you'll love this book. That means you, missmeridian.