One day more, or maybe 10, or maybe more…

Election results as of my bedtime:
Bush 249
Kerry 242
Iowa count suspended until tomorrow

Ohio is possibly contestable, and argued too close to call until the overseas and provisional ballots are counted… a 10-day window by Ohio law, if the pundits on TV are right.

If Bush sweeps the remaining states (NM, NV, WI) and takes Iowa tomorrow, Ohio ceases to be an issue. That would be a 296-242 victory for Bush, and just at my outside guess of “One Florida” for how strong a victory either side might get… but not really what I’d call “close,” and various folks on RASSF are entitled to an “You told me so” from me.

In the more likely event that Kerry takes Wisconsin, or Wisconsin ends up within the margin of litigation, well… we’ll have to see how the the Democrats decide to play it, and see if Ohio is a clear victory or another squeaker. Or if it looks like Florida 2000, with significant fraud.

The one point I genuinely worry about is if WI ends up in the margin of litigation, and either the Democrats decide to fight a slight Republican victory there, or the Republicans decide to fight there to preempt any contest in Ohio. I think the country could take one contested state this time. Two would worry the heck out of me. Blood in the streets? No, but bad nonetheless.

Effing Bush.

So effing cool

Horror movies, re-enacted by bunnies.

(via various sites, including a post on AmericaBlog

Like something out of Scooby Doo…

“But I didn’t know until this day that it was Barzini all along…” …?
“You meddling kids!” …?

No, apparantly The Votemaster of Electoral-Vote.com has finally come out publically with his identity.

Who are You?
My name is Andrew Tanenbaum. I am one of the 7 million U.S. citizens living abroad. I am a professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Most of you have never heard of me but in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny corner of the universe I have done enough stuff that Google has somehow managed to dig up 10,000 pages referring to me.

(from his site)

For all I know this page has been there all along, but dang it, this is news to me. Cool, though. What I really want to know is what Linus thinks about it and the election…

Space Moose…

Space Moose, the world’s greatest scatological comic strip.

It was offline for a while, but it’s been back for a while, with creator Adam Thrasher’s name replaced with “Mustafa Al-Habib” at the mirror.

A personal note…

I turned 29 today. Woohoo! Well, maybe not, but at least I’m not 30 yet.

On other notes, the election is only a few days about 30 hours off, I found out my brother has a blog (also in the sidebar now), and I’ve been way too busy at work to update much. Just remember to go out and vote on Tuesday, if you haven’t already. (I went to early voting on Saturday, with Marie… took a half hour or so.)

Even Eminem does GOTV by kos
Tue Oct 26th, 2004 at 18:20:31 GMT

Eminem’s new video is amazing. Truly. Even if you think you don’t like hip hop.
Post mirrors if you’ve got ’em. I know they must be out there.

Update: Sorry about the infected link. Mea culpa.
Also, from the comments:

We need this video on MTV

Go here to nominate it for TRL.
Go here to nominate it for MTV’s hip hop request show.
Scroll to the bottom, click “Other”, and enter Eminem for artist and “Mosh” for song title. Vote it in as many times as you can!

As should be obvious, from Daily Kos… links re-added manually, any errors mea culpa.

Mafiosi for Bush…

Check out the Smoking Gun article…

(via AmericaBlog)

Weirdest. Political Survey. Ever.

When people wonder why I suggest the possibility that the whole Iraq war obsession of Bush’s is about showing that he’s a “bigger” man than his father, now I can show them this…

74% of readers surveyed think Bush wears a codpiece.

(via Wonkette)

I love the British pres…

Read this. Now.
And then bear in mind that if you closed an editorial the way he does, you’d get a visit from the nice men from the Secret Service… and they say we we have freedom of the press in America?

(link found on Daily Dish, who doesn’t seem to find it funny.)

You can’t handle the truth…

wolfpacksfortruth.org responds to the Bush/Cheney “Wolves” ad.

(via Talking Points Memo)

“Bart Simpson would be proud of them..,”

Those wacky Italian kids … then again, someone at my high school blew up toilets with sodium metal.

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Arguments in favor of Oregon’s anti-gay marriage iniative 36 include such wonderful tidbits as:

“Oh, by the way, although Jesus never said a single word condemning homosexuality, if heterosexuals can’t get married, homosexuals shouldn’t be allowed to marry either—well, unless they’re too weak-willed to abstain. Sissies!”

(from Daily Dish)