Finally. I know that this could still keep going, you know, forever, but the smoke signals and tea leaves and bird guts all have pointed to Norm giving up. Given that this is a unanimous per curiam decision, it’s hard for Norm to show that he was beaten down by a shadowy liberal cabal. Frankly, his attorneys have done well to delay things this long, and I find it highly unlikely that Norm will continue on. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.
All I know is that my state’s junior senator is this guy:
Which leads me to ask the question – exactly what evil did the Minnesota electorate commit to deserve this?
3:03pm Central Time: Coleman concedes; Fecke called it.
exactly what evil did the Minnesota electorate commit to deserve this?
We love this. We’re the state that brought you Jesse Ventura. This is what we do.
About damn time!
This is what we do.
Heh.
And, yes.
Yeah, Jeff, I understand that’s what you guys do. I’m just trying to figure out why. Are you all that desperate for entertainment?
I mean, I’ve often said “Given the number of clowns we have in Congress, maybe we should start electing professionals”, but I was only kidding.
Okay, I’m actually disturbed that clowns aren’t as equally entitled to be elected to Congress as some other profession. It isn’t like lawyers and other “professions” have done such a great job of things …
It must be those long cold winters out in the rural areas. I know that in New England people are famous for getting “cabin fever”, and we’ve got some urban areas close by. Maybe it affects the brains.
I’m from sunny California, the home of both Governor Cowboy and Governor Terminator, so I don’t think cold has much to do with electing ridiculous entertainers.
—Myca
Hm. Could be. I’ve attributed that to the heat cooking people’s brains out there. But perhaps more to the point, my travels in California (few as they have been, I admit) have led me to perceive that the media and the people out there are just drenched with following the ups and downs and ins and outs of entertainers. After all, in parts of California like L.A. (where I have done most of what travel I have done in California, which probably colors my perception) entertainment is a huge industry and a big part of the economy, a lot more than in, say, Chicago. So a) they have a lot of name and face recognition, and b) people are more conditioned to think that what entertainers say and think about something other than entertainment actually matters and is worth paying attention to.
Who was Governor Cowboy?
I’m guessing Reagan.
Right. I should have said “Governor Movie Cowboy.”
Aw Christ.
And Representative Sonny Bono.
All three Republicans.
Coincidence? I doubt it.
—Myca
And Dirty Harry, Mayor of Carmel.
And George Murphy!
Probably this doesn’t say anything special about Californians versus other Americans; it just says that Hollywood is located in California.