Good = Not Bad

There are some days when it seems like all is lost in the world. There are days when your milk has gone bad, even though it's 5 days before the expiry date, and you just need a little tiny bit to make scrambled eggs. There are days when the secretary and her gang of South Boston facilities friends make popcorn in the microwave and the whole office ends up smelling like chemical butter flavour. There are days when you realize that said chemical butter flavour causes lung cancer in chemical butter flavour factory employees, much like asbestos or smoking or living in Michigan. There are days when your lab head tells you to spend 10 hours machining a bunch of parts because "$40 is way too much to pay for them commercially." There are days when you want to put up signs in the washroom that say "if you can't figure out how to piss in the urinal or crap in the toiler or flush either of the above, maybe you shouldn't be at this school." There are even days, my friends, when you run out of tape in your labeller and can't label anything...ANYTHING. Imagine unlabelled lasers. The horror.

Today was not such a day.

Today the 2006 mid-term election in the United States of America officially concluded with the Republican incumbent senator from Virginia conceding defeat to his Democratic challenger. With this sad little whimper, six years of total domination by the right wing in this country has ended. There were no legal challenged (well, yet), no angry allegations of voter fraud, no backdoor maneuverings to stop recounts, no rejecting of ballots because someone kinda looked like they might have been a criminal once maybe. The Republicans knew that they were finished, that the public here has had enough, and that it's time to pay the piper.

Days like today can reaffirm your faith in people...you can believe that people do still think for themselves, that given enough time they will see through the lies, and that given enough suicide camel bombings they will question the policies they've been supporting since 2003. Maybe this is the start of something bigger...maybe people will wake up to the urgent need to address the ways that we produce energy. Maybe people will start questioning the wisdom of preaching tolerance and understanding for beliefs that go against all of the freedoms and liberties that Western culture has spent the past 500 years building up. Maybe people will start walking their dogs twice a day, because hey, dogs like it. Or maybe this is where it will end...either way, the world is a better place than it was 48 hours ago, and whenever you can say that you gotta grab the opportunity.