Sort of. It's not that far until June 5th, and my mail-in ballot is beckoning to be filled in and mailed out.

But there's only two ballot initiatives on the ballot, so what fun is that? (Fortunately, we can look forward to many, many more being on the ballot in November, including this oneI will ponder the two intiatiatives soon, but for the nonce ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's do or die. Such is the case this week for the Obama Administration, the Democratic Party, and health care reform. I could go on in great detail about why this is so, but that is not my point here ( Read more... )

Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer each represent more people
(have more constituents) than any other person on Earth. By
shitloads.

The Indian upper house has about five million people per
representative. The Chinese national parliament (not a
particularly powerful body, but whatever) has 2000 members.

BzzztThe Brazilian Senate consists of ( Read more... )