WTF Is It Now?!?

God, it's after 3:00 already. I've been working in the yard, weeding and raking grass. Got the pansies/violas planted, and I cheated and planted some of last year's nasturtium seeds. After those 98 degree days this week, we're supposed to get sleet tonight, and chance of snow on Tuesday.

Checked out the woods in back to see if the morels were up yet - they weren't - and found a deer skull in really beautiful shape! It even had a nice set of antlers! I hung it up on the back deck.



Quote of the Day so far goes to Terry Jones at The Guardian, which continues to be a beacon of hope in a world filled with stinking, vile media whores: " According to the 'Florida Rules', the narrower the margin of victory, the greater the legitimacy. In fact, if the victor actually has fewer people voting for him than the loser (almost half-a-million fewer in the case of George W. Bush) then that is democracy's way of awarding him carte blanche to do whatever he and his friends in the oil business want."

Ouch! LOL. He goes on to say "Another good measure of legitimacy, according to the 'Florida Rules', is the number of interesting variations that can be introduced into the voting system. Florida led the way in the 2000 presidential elections with confusing ballot design in Palm Beach County (a confusion which favoured Bush by 10 to 1) and difficulties with the punch-card system in 26 out of the 67 counties (which probably lost Gore something in the region of 30,000 votes). Then there was also the question of setting up roadblocks to prevent black voters getting to the ballot, and the novel expedient of simply not collecting some of the ballot boxes when they did.

"The lack of this sort of experimentation in the Venezuelan elections must do a lot to harm the legitimacy of any so-called 'President' in the eyes of the Bush administration. Especially Mr Bush's brother's eyes."

I love that guy.