Here's something I didn't know. Ohio is indeed doing a recount of the presidential votes, as one would certainly hope. What I hadn't known was that the money for this came from the Green Party. David Cobb's campaign site goes into more detail, and is keeping tabs on everything. (Where does that phrase come from, "keeping tabs"? Thank you, Google.) No-one expects it to change the outcome of the election, but this recount is important nevertheless, as there are real grounds to question the overall integrity of the electoral process this time around. Just as there were last time. This is not tinfoil hat stuff. There's been a lot of talk about unreasonably long lines at polling places, malfunctioning machines and their lack of a paper trail, voters directed to the wrong polling places, voter registration issues, potential suppression of minority voters, all coupled with very worrying pre-election statements from the Ohio Secretary of State and the Diebold moguls...The only way to find out if these effects were significant is to do a careful recount. It seems like common sense to me. If things did go wrong, this will help us fix them. If things didn't, we can all sleep easier at night knowing.

Why the cock did it fall to the Greens and the Libertarians to get this ball rolling? Why did John Kerry, with his millions of unspent campaign dollars, not foot the bill? This was something simple and obvious and (relatively) inexpensive, good for morale and fighting spirit and the future and America and Christmas and puppies and hot dogs on sticks. And Kerry and the Democrats didn't do it. Way to fuck up!

My advice to the Democratic Party: stop fucking up.