My Sick Mind

Occasionally, my mind drifts into thoughts that are not relevant.  Most of the time, those thoughts wind up here.  So, in keeping with that theme, here we go. The old TV show "All in the Family" featured a dialogue between Archie and his son-in-law Mike over one of Mike's friends.  The dialogue drifted into Archie's ideas about England.  Without looking it up, here is my recanting of the dialogue: ARCHIE :  This ain't England.  We threw England out of here a long time ago.  We want no more parts of England ... and for your information, England is a fag country. MIKE : What? ARCHIE :  Ain't they still picking handkerchiefs out of their sleeves?  The whole society is based on a kind of a fagdom. There is no more relevance to bring to the discussion, other than the idea that the show was broadcast in 1971.  The part where my mind drifted came in when I started to think about whether dialogue like that, or even a show like ...

Chris Christie was re-elected yesterday.  He won with 64% of the vote.  The newspapers called it a "landslide."  I suppose that's true, in a political sense.  In a sociological sense, 36% of the voting public thinks someone else should be New Jersey's governor.  To me, that's more like a marginal victory, especially when you do the math... Vote Count Percent CHRIS CHRISTIE 50,449 64.03% BARBARA BUONO 26,933 34.18% Let's take a look at the turnout, for a look at the mathematics... Registration & Turnout 193,820 Voters   Vote Count Percent Election Day Turnout 72,815 37.57% Mail-In Ballot Turnout 7,658 3.95% Provisional Turnout 0 0.00% Total 80,473 41.52% So, if you apply mathematics, you figure that 58.5% of registered voters didn't vote.  It sounds to me like Barbara Buono got hosed.  She should have been able to get the 110,000 registered voters who sat at home to come out and push ...