A great time for sports
Looks as if all of the excitement in the world is nicely balanced by the complete tedium of my life. Yay.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new governor of California! The Democrats performed absolutely pathetically, and in a state in which Bush was trounced in 2000 by Gore, Arnie won handily, beating out Gray (Fade to black?) Davis in head-to-head numbers. Yeah, more “yes on Arnold” votes than “no on recall.” I guess that’s what happens when the leading Democratic challenger, Cruz Bustamante, has to start his campaign commercials with the convoluted message:
After voting “no on recall,” you have the right and responsibility to vote for a candidate for governor.
Hint to Democrats: your voters are idiots. If they can’t handle punch-cards in Florida, they sure as hell won’t be able to pull off any sort of two-step process in California. Lesson learned?
In fact, the county-by-county map of the recall vote (green=yes, red=no) is quite reminiscent of the 2000 election county-by-county map (red=Bush, blue=Gore). You can see bigger versions of either map by clicking on the thumbnails above. However, I should point out that the in the case of the of the 2000 election map, the color distribution is a little misleading, given the sparse population of many of the red counties. The issue is explained further by Robert Pontzer.
In other news, it’s a great time to be a sports fan. First, there’s the NFL, which is hands-down the best professional sports league in America. In no professional sport besides football can I bear to sit down and watch a random game between two teams I don’t care about. In the NFL, I can, because the games are fun and fast, and dammit, the players try! The former characteristic separates it from the MLB, the latter from the NBA.
By the way, while we’re on the subject of the NFL, let’s talk about Warren Sapp. Warren Sapp fucking sucks. Warren Sapp is a big, fat (literally) loudmouth. Warren Sapp runs through opposing teams’ stretching lines and thinks he’s hot shit. Well, guess what? Through 4 games, Warren Sapp is absolute tearing up the NFL with a grand total of 11 tackles and 0 sacks. Oh yeah. Anchor of the Bucs defense right there. Nice job in the Colts game.
But forget the NFL! It’s all about the Cubs! Holy crap, I think they have a shot!