Yesterday was the off-off-year election with no congressional seats up. Democrats are hailing it as a victory: they claimed both governorships that were in play and voters in California rejected all of Republican governor Arrnold Schwarzenegger’s initiatives. I live in Texas though, and it is a sad day for liberals in Texas. Not unexpected of course, just sad. Our state approved a constitutional amendment, prop 2, to discriminate against gays. My wife and I both voted against it with the knowledge that it would pass anyway. What stunned us was the sheer monstrous weight by which it passed: 76% to 24%. Even in the reddest of states I cannot conceive of the numbers being that extreme.

Of course we have electronic voting machines made by Diebold with no paper trails. You remember Diebold? The owner of the company promised to deliver votes to Bush in 2004. I have to level with you: every day I become a little bit more of a conspiracy theorist. Then again, is that an accurate term if there really is a conspiracy? Doesn’t matter today though. Today I’m just sad.

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