The mayor is in the news again. This time for an incident back in 2006. He allegedly shoved some dude or slapped him or something because they guy was making fun of him at a private party. It brings back the recent memory where he blessed out a construction crew for blocking a main artery through downtown and made the construction dude cry like a little baby.

I think that's great. This city has such a wimpy reputation with all the tree huggers and such that we need an asshole around every once in a while. (It's exhausting being the only one!)

I say we have more of these mayoral attacks. I think we should have a city ordinance where he drives around the city and jumps out and starts screaming at people that piss us collectively off. We could invite the entire city to send in emails to a "Get the mayor pissed off" email box and every week he could choose one or two and personally show up and threaten someone or some company or some road crew!

Love it. Make it work.

Ok yeah big primary woo woo.
Word on conservative (and other) news sites is that retiring Senator Chuck Hagel is a possible Secretary of Defense in some future Obamic administration. Sen. Hagel hates three things: the war in Iraq, gay rights and abortions, which makes Secretary of Defense is the perfect job for him. He can push the aspect of his ideology that I like.
He's also a potential running mate for McCain. Hmm.

Picture ripped off of msnbc -- gracias!

Over at ITPT it's been the Clinton blog all the time lately. I wonder if this is what Eileen's got on her iPod all day today.

Senator Clinton put an end to her losing streak last night in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island. I'm exhausted. I spent the evening sitting on a sofa with Carole Keeton Strayhorn talking about the contested races and in the difference in the early vote and the votes today.

She said to tell y'all hey.

NBC Reporting Obama and McCain take Vermont. McCain projected in Ohio. Dems too close to call. More later.

Tonight will be super busy for a lot of folks. Not me, though. I'll be in bed by 9. :)

You can get real-time election return results here.

KXAN Austin News will be liveblogging the returns with Carole Keeton Strayhorn. Plus, they have a whole section for updated news, results and races as they are called.

We'll also be popping here with some commentary, cause you know we'll have something to say.

Today is the day! Today is the day! Today is the day!

Like Christmas morn, I sprang out of bed to pick out my voting day outfit. What does one wear to go vote? Not a sweater because my "I voted" sticker won't stay on it for long. Maybe a suit!

All the way down the ballot, today's election is exciting. We'll be up late watching returns and being very critical of what the people have Texas do today.

Some ultra right-wing group is attackig Planned Parenthood with calls asking if they can donate money to abort black babies. (Here's the video). Ok, here's the problem. Planned Parenthood does allow you to earmark your donation to a specific minority group, but the calls are clearly racist because the callers want to make sure there are less black babies. That's where things turn ugly. Some dumbass in Idaho laughed and said, "understandable" and then shit hit the fan.

I have no problem taking money from your racist self. My righteous indignation and your ignorance and racism will be put on a shelf until I get your check. This kind of swallowing of pride and taking the crap you have to take is part of every day life for everybody that has to earn a dollar.

If I let my outrage get in the way of taking a dollar, I'd never have anything!

Ok, can I just say that I'm glad Texas doesn't decide the nominee every four years? I'm so over all of the political ads, the direct mail pieces clogging my mailbox, the bombardment of emails and robo calls are getting on my nerves.

Clinton and Obama are back in town, so be prepared for closed streets and crowds.

SNL is back after the writer's strike, just in time to do what they arguably do best and that's spoofing politics.

Speaker Craddick just bought an office chair for $2,698. That's one expensive office chair? Does it tickle your ass with a feather? I can't tell you the things a chair would have to do in order to justify that kind of price tag.

Maybe it magically makes you feel like less of an asshole than you really are or something. In that case, I should buy two.