Fishing for Change

E PLURIBUS UNUM - "out of many, one"

While I sit and wait to hear who comes out on top in the Malloy/Foley bare-knuckle cage match (each, of course, willing themselves into power by forming transition teams), I think it is time to focus on things of Greater Importance. For instance: this new penny.

I was buying groceries last night, with cash, and as I fished the change out of my pocket I spotted one of these beauties. For a moment I thought I had been slighted - who gave me this wooden nickel? But then I noticed that I had several of them in my hand. Frightened, I reached the only sane conclusion - they were multiplying.

I know somewhere in this there lies a Universal Truth about the election and somehow the analogy is fishing for change, but I've been run far to ragged by this election to draw any meaningful correlations.

Soft Losses?

A final word on the elections...

Well, we can finally put this thing to bed... sort of. We're all tired of the hype - and after last night, no one really cares anymore, excitement has waned. The one thing that really bothers me about being personally shut out at the poles is that I had several high-stakes bets in place that could have generated a great windfall, but the lone stipulation to these wagers was that I would have had to put my money where my mouth is and Vote Hard. Even at two-to-one odds Blumenthal was an easy bet placed with many takers - with or without the ten point spread. This could have easily made up for whats shaping up to be soft losses (9am)  a dead heat (10:30am)  soft losses (1pm) an apparent Democratic WIN (days later) on the Foley/Malloy front.

And of course the biggest failure of the day goes to Prop 19 out in California which lost by some 9 percent. This could have been a strong move for the state to flacidize the underground drug trade and raise tax revenue while unencumbering the legal system and ratifying bad decisions of the past - but does it even matter? The Tea Party is coming to Privatize Government, shouting "Down with Big Government, up with Big Corporate! Anything Goes!" The pot smokers will Run Wild due to the lack of authority. With enough of those loons in office, certain demographics will surely be labeled zombies and the order will go out to shoot them on sight. They've already lead an assault against Bigelow Tea's Charleston Tea Plantation in Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, dumping all the tea into the Wadmalaw Sound. It's a mixed message at best.