I am utterly failing to get any work done.

This is why I took the day off. I expected to up all night waiting for returns, but I still spent the day watching the news, reading the news and posting here. Otherwise, I am completely worthless.

I'm actually more productive than usual, even though I stayed up late and then had nightmares that all those blue states turned red overnight and they made McCain take back his concession speech. ::shudders:: I feel energized by the actual results and I wanted for the first time in a long time to get more done in a day than I normally planned for. And I have!

There's a movement to have the Mormon Church's tax-exempt status removed for interference in the political process.

told their congregants that they had to vote for someone/something specific.

Ah, but the letters that were sent from Utah to the California congregations only "urged" them to support Prop 8, they weren't "ordered." It was, of course, left up to their own consciences.

I am pretty sure they are within the law - here's a pdf of guidelines for religious institutions and pastors: [link]

The church's argument is that they have a right, nay, a duty to issue statements in matters they feel are important to the state of people's souls.

Still, I wouldn't want to be a Mormon missionary out knocking on doors today.

I am so tempted to send my uber-Republican, McCain-voting Dad (who sent offensive email after offensive email during the campaign that I simply ignored) an email that just says, "GOBAMA!" But I will resist. I'm such a good person.

From glAMcookie's link, this

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz to PEOPLE: "My parents met working for [Obama's running mate on one of his early campaigns]. If it weren't for Joe Biden, I would not exist as a human being. ... I am proud to be a part of history in the making."

Is intriguing to me. Are his folks from Delaware, I wonder???

Wonkette, on Nate Silver: So… Which Pollsters Live, Which Will Be Killed?

First, we must devote a section to your absolute favorite pretend boyfriend of late, the most famous person in the history of Internetting, the Messiah of Baseball Stastistics, the pale nerd (read: blogger) who manages to keep getting teevee invites, THE NEW PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Mr. Nate Silver of the FiveThirtyEight math site. He is not a pollster. But he likes polls, a lot.

Nate Silver taught numbers how to fuck. His final prediction was 349 electoral votes for Obama and a 6.1 percentage point win in the popular vote. At the moment, both of those numbers are exactly correct. Nate Silver lives. Oh but wait! The final tally will likely throw North Carolina in Obama’s column, giving him 364 electoral votes in the end. Hmm… Nate Silver dies.

I was impressed by how right Nate was. Trust the baseball geek, save the world.