Dark mood on a sunny day

Well folks, I'm hoping this post makes it because once again, Blogger is glitching out regularly and this is the first time I've been able to get into this screen in 24 hours. I'm sure you know by now that disaster has befallen us and somehow entirely half of America are the people that PT Barnum told us you could fool all of the time. Bush has finally been elected as president, although hardly with a mandate. Not that the world will see it that way. As a commenter from Holland said in Detroit, "It's very sad. The whole world now thinks Americans must be very stupid."

All is not lost though, several marijuana initiatives passed although sadly Alaska's was not one of them. If I can get in here again later tonight, we'll be reviewing the results. Here in Mass we also did well on marijuana policy. Northampton passed a non-binding resolution to legalize and medical marijuana initiatives passed in other districts of the state with very respectable margins. Four more years of Bush won't make our work easier but we managed to get this far while he was in office and we can still break new ground. Let's not forget that Nixon managed to get reelected as well and he didn't get his way in the end.

Meanwhile, it took so long to get in here, that I'm out of time this afternoon but now that election is finally over, I'll be back on the drug war front within the next couple of days. It's good to be home.