Happy Birthday and belated congradulations to whomever I'm forgetting.

I was too tired last night to mention how adorable the littlest Buffistas all were in their wee costumes! Ded from the cute, indeed!

I went to a party last night and though I didn't drink that much and made sure I was clear-headed before I drove home, I am pretty worthless today. I've been sitting here since getting up and eating breakfast and am shocked to discover how late it is! Oy!

The costume was bought with the bright idea that since we have a baby carrier that allows us to wear him on our backs, if we went to any sort of Halloween party this year, I could dress as Luke Skywalker and carry him around.

OMG, that is EXACTLY how we'd planned to dress Dylan at Comic-Con! And then we wound up unable to go. But still. Geek minds think alike, I guess.

(PS, Dear Child, GO TO SLEEP. YOU ARE VERY TIRED. TAKE A FREAKING NAP.)

People/Things I Would Vote For President Before I Would Vote For John McCain.

This may have supplanted Things Younger Than McCain as my favorite anti-McCain blog. (Especially since TYTM.com has pretty much devolved into "Buy my book based on this blog!" nowadays.)

Happy Birthday, Ginger!

I will have to go back later to see cute kidlet pictures. Right now I am attempting to sort through all of the California proposition, and my head is killing me. There are propositions I'd normally support that I'm ambivalent about (because I really do think this "bonds will pay for everything without new taxes, really!" talk is bullshit), and yet when I look at the "no" sites, I'm disgusted by some of the groups opposing and some of the hateful language these groups use. For example, I would absolutely love to see a high speed rail system in CA, but there's a pretty convincing article in AAA's magazine Westways about why this particular proposition is so badly flawed as to make it unworkable. But the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, who runs the No site, horrifies me. They're the ones who pushed for Prop 13 back in the day and decimated California's schools. And Prop 3 is all about funding children's hospitals, which I'd normally be all for, but can we afford it right now? Yet the No site for them is limittaxes.org, which spends most of its time railing against those evil liberals and what they're going to do to our country.

Also, I'm faced with this massive list of local judges and such with no information on any of them.

ARGH! Voting in Connecticut was so much easier.

I voted today!

It was simple, painless and pretty darned quick. Less than 20 minutes not including travel time. I didn't even have a chance to read the book I brought.

It's weirdly anti-climactic. It is, for all intents and purposes, over for me but I'm still getting robocalls and literature through the door.

I unintentionally, but most definitely dissed a prominent local politician who is a write-in candidate...DCistas, I'm sure you know who I mean. She walked up to me and asked if I was a DC voter...I breezed right past her with, "Yes, I am. And I know who you are. And I've already made up my mind."

I suppose I could have just told the truth. "Hell, no, I won't vote for you. But good luck with that."

I do feel good about chatting with a few people about THEM voting early. People just don't seem to know that they can.

I vote yes on high speed rail because even if this proposition is bad, and won't work , I need the yes to transportation to be heard.

as for three --- I have heard ( but not researched) that they laid off workers -- but this is for building -- and I think they need people more than buildings ...But really, I need to do a bit more research

In general -- if I can't see my way clear I vote no on propsistions. If they can't be written clearly enough for me to understand -- they really aren't good.

Also , my understanding is that part of the budget constraints are due to propsitions -- money is hard to shift around.

I do not vote on judges because I know NOthing about them

Mondday is my day to go through things

For judges, I follow the Dem party line, 'cause I don't want to risk accidentally voting for a right-wing judge, or even helping a right-wing judge by not voting for a centrist or liberal. Right-wing judges scare me.

From Andrew Sullivan's blog -- a photographer does a series of pictures of friends that she's inveigled to dump stuff on their heads:

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Made me laugh and laugh, and is totally work-safe, too.

The photographer has a video, too: [link]

Happy Birthday Ginger!

Buffista children in costume pictures have killed me ded.