Do ya? Well, you shouldn’t. At least not in NYS politics, as Governor Snotball rather handily (though not as handily as he’d have liked) withstood the Zephyr wind to win the Democratic nomination for Governor. So, thanks to the worthless, gutless, and feckless Working Families Party (I wish I still had links on the sidebar so I could take theirs down), we won’t be able to vote for Teachout in November. I guess that only leaves perpetual candidate for everything Howie Hawkins (he’s kinda like a Timex watch – or maybe Gus Hall). Since there’s virtually no possibility of that Republican guy (what’s his name? Ford Torino or something?) winning (absent some Anthony Weiner-style twitpics out there somewhere), I guess that’s a safe vote. Or you can write me in. But I think I’d vote for Howie instead.
In the other news, Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiled the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus to a standing ovation at the iSheep convention yesterday. At one point, I saw a slide of the “evolution of the iPhone” with each generation lined up. Other than size, they all looked the friggin’ same. Of course, Apple is great for people who like to be told what to do (they remind me a lot of the old AOL in that respect – they made everything so “easy” and with AOL you never needed to go out on that scary old Internet, ‘cuz AOL had everything you’d ever want right there within its safe little walls), and this “new” phone will be a huge hit.
Timmy also showed off a big, square, ugly watch that’ll go for $350. Too me it looks kinda like something they’d give you if you were under house arrest. I predict it will be lauded as stylish and revolutionary, and will be a huge hit (at least amongst the Apple crowd).
Oh well, time to get back to checking on my databases. I’m officially on-call now, so I spent most of last night waiting for a phone call (that never came, thank goodness, ‘cuz I really don’t know WTF I’m doing).
From my college alumni profile page (pretty much sums things up for me):
So I was reading this AP story on them finding one of the ships from the Franklin Expedition (you may remember it as the doomed search for the Northwest Passage where they brought a new thing called “canned food” with them, which was great except for the cans were sealed with lead and there’s speculation thar they were all killed by complications of lead poisoning).
Anyhow, I read this line:
…and I thought, “really? This is how stupid the AP thinks were are?” They couldn’t just say 11 meters and leave it at that? They have to tell us that a meter is like a yard?
“Meter? Whut in the hell is a meter?”
Not to mention that 11 meters isn’t even equal to 11 yards. 11 meters is slightly more than 12 yards.
Cuomo got 60%. He lost in Albany…where they know him best. Teachout did better than any other challenger to a sitting governor. She did it with very little cash. Hopefully, it has damaged Snotball’s presidential bid. Perhaps he and Christi can console each other and ride off into the sunset together. (This is the best I can do in the good news department.)
According to the WaPost, cost per vote:
Cuomo: $60.62
Teachout: $1.57
She did a great job. In the city she lost heavily monority areas where she probably would have done well had she a $1.57 to reach each of those voters.
I was bombarded with money appeals from my congressman, Bishop. Each time I sent money he sent another email begging for more. If he weren’t running against a nutty Repub I would not have sent him any. I didn;t get a thing from Teachout.
Woo-hoo! That three cents will certainly help with the school taxes.
Tim Wu blasts Mayor de Blasio as “greatest impediment” to electing a progressive lieutenant governor