If you say so, I guess it’s a trend

I sometimes laugh a little when reading trend stories in the New York Times. It often appears the writer has a friend who does something a little unusual and then he/she works to find a trend. Two points on a data chart do not produce a trend. It’s just a line.

This morning CNN is writing about the “mini-trend” of celebrities getting divorced. Is this breaking news?

The next trend will be – skinny blonde ladies will appear in movies and on television. Hot, misunderstood men will try to woo them. Quick! Someone get Wolf Blitzer on the phone.

The lumbering wheels of democracy continue to turn

I don’t tend to get very political on the blog, but I am always amazed at how seamlessly we transition power. Problems? Of course! Shenanigans? Absolutely. Intimidation? Very likely! Stupidity? Why stop on Election Day?

But eventually we swap power with fanfare – we do it with paper and electrons, not bullets. So if your guy/gal lost or, for that matter, won you’d do well to remind yourself of this fact.

And as they say in Wrigley Field, there’s always next time.

A whole new level of nerd-dom

Deeps and I are going to an Election party tomorrow night.

Oh yes people, that’s how wild we are on a Tuesday night. Veronica Mars be damned! That’s why we have the TiFaux!

I’ve been told we’ll have food, watch the results as they float in and play a drinking game. I should be drunk by 7:15.

That sounds pretty nerdy, right? So I shouldn’t be too embarrassed if I run out of stuff to say and I fall back on my “That sure puts the goober in gubernatorial” joke, right?

I’ve been cramming all kinds of political knowledge in preparation.

God, that looks even worse when I type it in a blog.