Ahh, Monday.

Back to work today. Man, I'm beat. I'm glad that there isn't a game tonight. I'm going to be able to catch some Z's (yeah, right). Anyway, I'm doing the same ol', same ol' today. Man, this computer drudgery is brutal. If it weren't for the Punch You In The Face™ coffee, I'd be dead on my feet.

Listening to sports radio. Not too much about the Sox, which is surprising. In fact, most of the news is about the Pats. During the middle of this are DNC commercials bashing Kerry. What's laughable is the part where they say that Bush is giving handouts to the oil company, then complaining about the high oil prices, then criticizing Bush's invasion of Iraq.

Just one minute, here. I thought Bush's invasion of Iraq was supposed to be about oil! Wouldn't that lower oil prices and silence one of the complaints of the DNC? That's the problem with liberals; they don't know what they want. They point in every which direction, which necessitates conflicting goals, much like the problem here in Massachusetts with the wind farm off the Cape. Here we are with environmentalists calling for renewable energy and less polluting forms of energy than, say, coal. So what happens? An idea for putting a wind farm off the Cape is proposed. Sounds good right? But no, other environmentalists say that the wind farm ruins the picturesque view of the area! Amazing! It's a classic case of NIMBY and prominently displays the inherent hypocrisy of liberals. They want everything to be easy, quick, and painless. That's why they support higher taxes to pay for Social Security, welfare, Medicare, and every other entitlement. Ask them to roll up their sleeves and actually do something about it, and the vast majority quickly turn into heartless Republicans. "Oh, I don't have time." or "Oh, somebody will take care of it." are the usual responses. It's always "Somebody Else's Problem". They play the bleeding heart, but once push comes to shove, they're bastards just like Republicans, only Republicans don't make any bones about it.

On another note, Arthur Chrenkoff notes John Kerry's real feelings about "the so-called coalition of the bribed,the coerced, the bought and the extorted". The blatant hypocrisy is almost too much to bear. Kerry can't help but talk out of both sides of his mouth, which is why I cannot support him. I'm a single-issue voter in this election, and for someone who was the son of a diplomat, he shows no real diplomatic ability other than kow-towing to France and Germany.

Politics. This race has got to be one of the most divisive in history, and definitely the most since I've been around. And it's this way because people have lost faith in the system. The vote was supposed to be the final arbiter of who wins and who loses. Sports is a lot like the election race. You have rules and referees, just like in sports. In football, say, you may disagree with the call of the referee, but ultimately, the call is accepted simply because people believe in the system and the rules. Where everything breaks down is when the system isn't clearly defined and the rules are called into question. With voting, just like in football, there should be very little room in making a judgment call in who wins and who loses. The most mangled rule is the federal "motor-voter" law. Registering to vote never was so easy...and so easy to cheat. Because the rules became gray (and broken), it allowed more and more judgment by referees. And we all hate the refs. When we don't have enough trust in who wins and who loses, what we get is ways to take advantage the system in a self-catalytic exponential growth of distrust and rancor.

What to do? It's late, so I can't talk more about what I think should happen to ensure fair elections that restores our faith in the system. More tomorrow and g'night.