a dose of politics

it's good for you, so shut up and swallow.

first, the news everybody's talking about. abu musab al-zarqawi was killed in an air strike last night. this is good news. even though the violence in iraq won't stop and the massive cost in lives and dollars won't be reduced, it's still good news.

second, just a little while ago, we won a vote on the estate tax! huzzah! seeing as senate procedures are only slightly less complicated than rocket surgery, i'm still a little fuzzy on what exactly we accomplished, but the guys on the budget team here are totally jazzed! repeal would cost us $1 trillion over ten years they told me in full gravitas mode. factcheck.org told a different story, but i didn't have the heart to tell them that. spin, budget team, spin like the wind!

third, tuesday (more on that later) was one of the many pre-election day elections that keep the wonks salivating and fill the lonely hours of the news cycle. and it was a pretty good day for the forces of justice. that ten commandments guy lost, old man burns is in trouble, and the rncc spent a whopping one fifth of its warchest on ca-50 only to win by a paltry 5000 votes. that's not what i would call a stellar roi. then again, i got most of my economics knowledge from playing simcity.

oh yeah, and the fma went down in flames again, picking up one more vote (49) than it had in 2004. at this rate, homosexuals won't have anything to worry about until 2042--except for hatred, fear, oppression, pesky state marriage bans, aids, the bird flu, evildoers, immigrants, flag burners, suvs, and mary cheney. and this was supposed to be uplifting. sorry.