It's a good day to be a Democrat.



ETA: From brapolitics here-- The Washington Post is reporting that not only did the Ehrlich and Steele campaigns finance misleading sample ballots that asserted that Kweisi Mfume (former head of the NAACP) and Jack Johnson were supporting them, there were also ballots passed out representing Ehrlich and Steele as Democrats.

Ehrlich and Steele knew that in order to get re-elected/elected, they had to appeal to minority voters. O'Malley has a firm lock on Baltimore City, and so the next largest minority population is the heavily-Democratic Prince George's County... right where those misleading sample ballots were passed out.

Not only did Erlich and Steele knowingly distribute misleading election literature to a specifically-targeted audience, but they also recruited from Pennsylvania homeless shelters at $100/day to do it.

It's absolutely fucking reprehensible. Thank God(s) that those lying bastards are getting the boot.

Read more about it here.

Wait, wait.

Dems have the House and are tied for Senate, O'Malley for Governor, we're gonna have a female Speaker of the House, we have our first Muslim congressman, we have our second black Governor, and...

Donald Rumsfeld is gonna step down?


Dude. Pinch me. For serious. The only thing that could make this better is Bush spontaneously being struck by lightning. Pretzel-flavored lightning.

So, in the Spring, I posted this picture of my walk home:

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Today, I left work a half hour earlier than usual today, because I got in a half hour earlier. Despite weird feelings I have about walking around here after dark, it was still a fairly light twilight, and so I decided to take the shortcut home from the metro-- the one that passes through Sudbrook Park. For those of you who are visually-oriented, this post contains a pictoral documentation of the shortcut home from the metro. I went over the bridge, past the white rocks, and around the bend towards the metro route overpass. Then I noticed something odd.

It wasn't that there were 4' high downed branches in the path. That happened sometime Sunday, but they're easy enough to walk around if you're on foot. You certainly wouldn't want to chance it with a vehicle unless you were certain you wanted a new paint job. But then again, why would you? There are no roads in the middle of the park, so it wasn't that big of an issue to clear, I guess.

It was that there was a parked car under the overpass, just past the downed branches. No lights, and it was too dark to see inside where I stood roughly 30' away. There was absolute silence-- no one around.

I stopped, looked around, and turned right the hell back around. You know when something just doesn't feel right? Well, it just didn't feel right.

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