Wayne County, IN has *finally* reported in, and it's official: Indiana is a blue state. Dayamn. Never thought I'd see the day.
http://www.co.wayne.in.us/voter/election2008/general/final.htm
(McCain was down 15K statewide, so the slight win in Wayne County isn't enough.)
As a Californian, I'm worried about 8. Since the election's going to be called before our polls close, there's a theory that the Obama voters will stay home after that, leaving the social conservatives, who are motivated by the propositions on abortion and gay marriage, to dominate the polling. I hope that theory's wrong.
The polling on 8 is much too close for comfort.
A Field Poll of likely voters finds the measure, which would ban gay marriage, trailing by five percentage points -- 49-44, with 7% undecided. In September, the margin was 14 points.
San Mateo County, CA:
I voted at 7:30 AM and was out by 7:40; most of that was coping with the voting machine. We have quite cool machines that are dial-operated with detents, so they're friendly to the vision-impaired and don't have parallax errors. (Your vote shows up as a red box on-screen.) They also give you three chances to verify your vote -- two onscreen and one on the paper record. I couldn't be happier.
There was a bit of a crowd at my polling place, by which I mean the tiny parking lot was full and there was a line of 5 people to vote at one precinct. I noticed that on my page of the signature-verification book, over half the voters had already voted by mail.
Here in California I'm very worried about Prop 8. How insane is it that it requires a two-thirds vote across the state to raise taxes, but only a simple majority to amend the Constitution?
I was out shopping yesterday in Redwood City (part of Silicon Valley, large Hispanic population) and drove through an intersection full of Prop 8 signs on all four street corners. "Save Freedom of Religion" "Save Free Speech", "Save Parental Rights". Whole families were there, down to toddlers. I gave them a thumbs-down.
I'll be up late watching that one, long after the rest of the election is decided. (God and suppress-the-vote drives permitting.)
Wow. Palin really is a piece of work.
When she was mayor, she fired both the librarian and the police chief for "not fully supporting her efforts to govern". The police chief sued, but lost because police chiefs are at-will.
The lady will fit right in with the Bush/Cheney tradition of cronyism.
Yeah, the fun never stops. Local school systems had to provide more than 400 buses Saturday to make up for a lack of transportation the state had promised to provide for evacuees by using out-of-state contractors.
The Governor promised 700 buses would arrive by Thursday. As of Thursday night, 150 had arrived. By Friday, the governor's assessment was this: "The contractor is not necessarily doing what they promised to do."
It would be lovely if New Orleans actually had 700 buses headed in... but the contractor bailed ... excuse me, ran into challenges. They're using school buses instead.
Also: time spent being aware of your surroundings is never wasted.
Unless you're in Charlotte, North Carolina. </bitter>
abi@413: Not guaranteed, alas. Clemency for the once-hanged was a matter of choice. Which does seem unfair, but there you go.
A.J.Hall@416: I am envious of your distinguished forebears. The best I can muster is a Bermudian privateer. I had a co-worker once who was descended from St. Thomas More, which is, I think, as showy an ancestor as one can hope for.
I checked. Advise and Consent is not in print. On the other hand, the movie still is, and one hopes (depending on contract) that the writer is still getting royalties from that.
Bookfinder is a better source than Amazon for telling you whether a book is in print; you can click to have it tell you to return new results only.
Like many of the inhabitants of the blogosphere, I'm a big ol' geek. That said, I am still astonished by the degree to which Capobianco and Burt are not only net-ignorant but net-phobic. Especially Burt. I turned to my cubemates and described the algorithmic crudity of his search for infringing documents on scribd. They turned pale and said "This guy teaches computer science?!?!?!"
Michael Capobianco was fast asleep when the concept of "blog" was explained...
Vox Day is 39; chalking it up to youthful exuberance assumes a Gallifreyan if not Longian lifespan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Beale
Burt wants input on "What to do with Scribd?"
Mr. Jaw, meet Mr. Floor.
"They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing."
If he's causal, can I be effectual?
Shall we start a pool on how long this takes to hit Slashdot?
Way to piss off your customer base... (and, yes, software geeks and DMCA fanatics do buy books.)
Marilee, it's just been announced that Black is pregnant and will not be shooting the show.
I really, really regret the Julian Kestrel novels by Kate Ross, who died unexpectedly and far too young. Morally complex Regency mysteries that are as aware of Regency lowlife as highlife.
Fanlib's official response is that this brochure was designed in 2004 for a previous version of Fanlib, not for the current 2007 offering.
http://www.fanlib.com/posts/list/75/153.page#2392
This means, of course, that the contempt for fans expressed so abundantly in the 2004 brochure in no way carries over to their 2007 product.
collection of women at home with their kids who are making their butter and egg money writing M/M porn for electronic publishers.
I saw that one at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books, and I was impressed. Slash goes mainstream! It's been okay forever for men to like woman-on-woman porn, but not the reverse.
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