Voting is hard.

Yes, it seems easy enough, until you hear states having recounts.  Can elections really swing a few hundred votes either way.

Yes.

This website is very interesting and contains samples of ballots from the Coleman/Franken Minnesota US Senate race.

It is not always as clear as you think.

I haven't seen this on yer usual social newssites, ( Read more... )

I don't know why people send me stuff like this. Do they think I will find it funny? I have no idea.

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Favorite news story of the week (oh, besides, that one) - Bacon beats Fries in election

Second favorite story - Marijuana Thompson arrested

If you can get past the name, it's worth it for this quote from his girlfriend - "He didn't do nothin' to nobody - nothin'! He was a good person."

Which for one thing answers whether Marijuana is a boy or girl ( Read more... )

A day to go, so let's just get all this stuff out now, starting with this:


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Of all the things about the election, the thing I may miss the most is the user-created stuff on YouTube. I give you Baracky and Baracky II.

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Hey, it was a Tuesday, and there was a really good episode of Springer on.

Oh well, ain't the first time I let someone down.

http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=juOIGThuGGj2qYM0DnRhdzMzOTI5MDA-&referred_by=10025503-ZxiA_gx

Why do people send me this stuff?  I didn't ask.

For example, I didn't ask for you to send this to me.  I am above that.  I don't think that's funny.  I don't that's the tone I want to set with my blog.  I am just not going there.

And no matter how much you ask or beg, I am certainly not posting this.  We don't go for the cheap laughs here.  No sir.

I admit I was pulling for the Cubs. I've been to a half-dozen plus I-Cubs games in the last two years so I had seen a few players come up the ranks. I also was at Wrigley for the Cubs' second game of the year (and have the giveaway magnet to prove it).

So, certainly, I was hoping it would be the year. My friend CM even moreso. He has pretty much ( Read more... )

I love Sarah Palin!

That's what I would do too.

What newspapers do I read?

Uhh.. All of them?

That's totally something I would say.

Though I can name at least a couple of court cases even before I had my first cup of coffee of the day.  I thought everyone knew at least Brown vs. Board of Education or Dred Scott.  Then again, she's only running for the ( Read more... )

Not all of this is fair, but some of it is.  I thought my left-leaning friends would get a kick out of it.  It's an e-mail that has been forwarded, no idea the source.

Food for thought:

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> 'exotic', 'different.' but grow up in Alaska eating ( Read more... )