half a cup of mourning

i need to stop living in liberal meccas because it's getting to be a big joke, and i'm rather sick of being the butt of it. why do i fool myself that there are rational people living throughout the united states?

in san francisco, kerry got 83% of the vote. the rest went to nader. okay, i'm kidding about the nader part (he wasn't even on our ballot), but you get my point.

some things that happened today:
- i discovered that the website of my hometown paper (the st. petersburg times, florida) has the best interactive graphic of the country & its vote tally. better than any major news site, including the awesome nytimes graphic that is just overkill (albeit gorgeous overkill).
- san francisco passed a city policy to "urge the United States government to withdraw all troops from Iraq". seriously. it got 63% of the vote. way to urge!
- kerry conceded the election to bush
- my company threw around the idea of moving the offices to finland
- dan decided he'd move to north korea if canada fills up
- my (usually non-political) cousin sent me a ranting email
- my uncle decided that our election process is no more civil or effective than afghanistan's
- the MUNI got me to work in 20 minutes
- starbucks made a half-decent (dare i say good?) plain latte

i'm glad that i am not adding to the list a victory by bubba the love sponge in his race to be pinellas county sherrif. at lease some pigs aren't flying.