Karmic Blender

[rynomatic]

I'm feeling very balanced at the moment. Not "balanced" the sense that I'm mentally at ease and in command of my day to day existence. No, more "balanced" in that this week has seen an equal share of very good and very bad events

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So close

[dixomatic]

There was a point during the evening Tuesday in which Paccione had a 1 percent lead on Mad Dog. It turned out to be a bad thing, since going into the day I felt it wasn't even going to be close and that short-lived lead only got the newsroom's hopes up.

Just to give you an idea about us "liberal" media, there were about 17 people in the office that night and I'd say 15 of them were pulling for Paccione, yet our official editorial opinion was in favor of Musgrave. Running stories about inneptitude only goes so far when you're up against an owner who schleps GOP.

Of course, our paper also endorsed a coroner who just a week before the election had an expose done on Channel 9 about how he had unfinished death reports from 9 years earlier as well as multiple detectives pretty much calling him a douchebag. Oh, and we were the only paper to endorse Beaupre.

I work for tools.

Re: So close

[rynomatic]

Indeed, you do.

This was one of those times where talking politics with my mom is maddening. Having a single issue representative is generally a bad idea. Having that single issue be something that can't possibly help a congressional district that's already economically marginal makes it an really stupid idea. Throw in the fact that said single issue isn't going to get any play anyway since the opposing party is very likely to at least substantially reduce the margin of control for your idiot candidate's party and it's just insane. Still, Mom pulled the lever for Musgrave because Paccione defaulted on her student loans and that was irresponsible. That goes right up there with my brother's notion from the last election that Bush should be re-elected so he can have a chance to finish the war that he started.

Re: So close

[dixomatic]

I guess I will never understand what rural Colorado was thinking. They must really, really, really despite gay people to ignore the fact that more than 400 irrigation wells were shut down in Colorado this summer under Musgrave's watch. The sugar beet crop in northern Colorado hit a record low this year, but at least farmers won't be forced to fill in a "spouse" category on their bankruptcy forms.
It reminds me of the quote from Blazing Saddles: "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know - morons."