Seeking small things

Apparently Maine's four electoral votes, which can be split, have enough allure that McCain will make a last campaign stop somewhere up here.  Speculation centers on the Second Congressional District, which could incommode our personal traffic.  Or not -- published theory says we have the largest land area of any congressional district east of the Mississippi, which gives him a lot of choice of territory . . .

The moose will probably bloc-vote against Palin, though.  So I think he's wasting his time.

From various sources

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

We've been married nearly 40 years now, together longer.  Queers haven't threatened us yet.

If the turkey-brains* are talking about "marriage" in the generic rather than specific cases, I have to say that judging by divorce rates and domestic violence, heterosexuals represent an order of magnitude more threat to the institution . . .

*Domesticated turkeys, for sure.

A dite nippy

Went for an evening walk ("evening" being a moving target now, with sunset ever earlier) and discovered that November has come early.  Temperature in the upper 30s F, with breeze.  The TV weather-people have started to whisper "wind chill" and "snow" amongst their incantations.

A "dite" is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.

On the offhand chance that some of you haven't seen this...

What was that nasty Old Testament bit about worshiping a golden calf?  Maybe a bronze bull doesn't count.

Damn near everyone has linked this already, but as the title says:

http://wonkette.com/403920/jesus-people-pray-that-false-idol-will-save-gods-economy