Florida Fuckwittage

Yeah, I've been away a while. It's not so much that I've been busy, it's more that I don't feel I've got anything productive to say.

The election antics are finally starting to piss me off. Malice made a reference to The Crucible, which I can certainly see. This is, of course, only showing the rest of the world that we are NOT all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips. That can't be good, when the country that's supposed to be the finest example of a democracy decends into the pit of partisan politics right in view for the whole globe to watch.

What a bunch of idiots we are.

The Bush side is being totally two-faced at this point. Mr. Bush approves of hand-counting ballots, but only in Texas. Frankly, I'd like to see Gore concede after the absentee ballots are counted on Friday, hand-counts or no (only if he actually loses, of course, and I think that's not a sure thing). I think it's what's best for the Democrats in the long run, and possibly for Mr. Gore as well. In my humble opinion, I think that Bush has dug himself a fine hole and he should be permitted to fall into it. What kind of an arrogant fuck appoints a cabinet before the deciding state is even called? As far as the hand-counts are concerned, I think they should be demanded by the voters of Florida, not by Al Gore. George Bush's denial of the hand-counts is even worse than Al Gore demanding them. I have to say that he's been pretty quiet during the process, and I for one appreciate that. Bush just won't fucking shut up. Let's hope he takes the whole party down with him. It's so bloody obvious that he's afraid of a hand-count and all he's doing is telling half the population of Florida "fuck you, my brother's in charge here and we say your vote doesn't count." I wish Gore wasn't taking legal action, because, like I said, the Bush team is doing such a fine job of making asses of themselves that it would be nice to have a vaccuum coming from the Gore side.

I wish I could put myself in the shoes of a Bush supporter so that I could maybe see both sides, but I'm so far from liking and/or respecting that man that I just can't do it.

I'm really going to miss Bill Clinton. I started out not liking him, but I can't deny that his presidency has been very, very good to me. And you know, he's big old womanizing windbag, but he's done good overall. I mean, he's a rocket scientist compared to Bush. I wonder what he could have done if he hadn't spent half his presidency fighting about whether or not he fucked an intern[1]. It sure looks like really small potatoes next to all the election fraud charges being leveled at the government of Florida, doesn't it?

OK, enough about that. Like I said, my life hasn't been really exciting. My realtor on the selling side of my old townhouse is doing all kinds of crap for me, and I really appreciate it. All that is ticking along the way it should, but I'm trying *very* hard not to mentally spend that money. Reminder: It's not mine until it's in my hand. Damn, I'm such a pessimist. Set your expectations low and you'll never be disappointed. I hate disappointment, after all.

A while back, I tried to write up what I've learned about relationships in my 1/3 of a century here on earth. I personalized it too much and Tino was kind of horrified by it, so I took it down about 10 minutes after I put it up.

I'm going to rework the theory and you'll see it when it's ready. I might even do it today since the network here is so flaky that trying to do any actual work is horribly frustrating.