I don't feel angrier at the moment, but I know that the floor between the PIT OF RAGE and the EVERYTHING IS FINE AIRSPACE has been ticking upwards for the first time since the 2006 election results. I can't even look at the Google News front page any more. Listening to the daily NPR podcast is once again starting to turn me into an unhinged figure ( Read more... )

Shit.

Update: FUCK

Update: Deep breaths, deep breaths.

Well, that's it, then; the AP's called the Virginia race. The entire legislature is now Democratic-controlled ( Read more... )

I visited rikchik last night for his regular gaming event and he asked me if I was exploding yet, and I didn't know what he meant at first. I guess I forget that other people actually read all my angry political posts, or maybe that the people who do read and comment on them are the same people I see in person often ( Read more... )

Before I did so, I called my parents to get their neutral-party take on Question 1 - they split on it. I actually ended up voting differently than I thought I would when I woke up this morning. I think I'd be satisfied with either outcome, for different reasons. (Q1 is basically: should supermarket chains be able to easily sell booze wine in MA? ( Read more... )

If the story about the Republicans' cross-country, 11th-hour scheme to confuse voters by phone-harassing them in their opponents' names isn't national headline news by close of business today I don't know what I'll do. I'm hopeful, because it's currently burning up the center-and-left-o-sphere, mere hours after sparking; I am up past bedtime ( Read more... )

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This makes me very pleased: If you're voting in Massachusetts next week, you can use this website to plug in your address and see what your ballot will look like, including referenda. Heretofore I have always been surprised by a couple of these questions, and peeved. I have wanted to see exactly this ( Read more... )