options, moving on, there's always a tomorrow in baseball

Of course, everyone's first instinct is to flee. This is clearly an option. Brett just sent me a link to a Harper's article "A reader's guide to expatriating on November 3".

If expatriation sounds somewhat drastic (and ultimately passive and destructive, but that's just my opinion), there's always the option to marry a foreigner. Just two minutes before, Jeff had sent me a link to a website that seeks to hook up Canadians with Americans (seems like this would be an easier task with Mexicans. Just kidding. My apologies to NAFTA).

Or all the pissed off, let down liberal leaning pragmatic Americans out there could take an interest in local as well as national politics, start talking to their representatives, get involved with shaping what will need to be the new face of the DFL, and start producing candidates that stand for something. It really disappoints me to see headline on salon.com that read "Why did Bush win? Because Kerry was a bad candidate." If he was such a bad candidate, why did they get behind him for the past 8 months? Their finger pointing is misdirected and harmful.