It’s not fair!
There are so many things I’d like to blog about, but I have several piles of work (which I’m taking a lunchtime mental health break from) preventing me from doing much more than issuing a round of congratulations:
- Congratulations to folo and Rossmiller for so vigorously discussing the second person plural pronoun, “y’all”. Having grown up in Memphis and also having spent time in L.A. (Lower Alabama), I feel perfectly comfortable observing: All y’all yankees seem to have a hard time with simple grammar.
- Congratulations to John McCain for clinching the GOP nomination to run for President. And, Congratulations to Huckabee for finally acknowledging the inevitable, doing so very graciously without damaging his prospects to campaign for a kinder, gentler theocracy in the future.
- Congratulations to Hillary for winning the Rhode Island, Ohio, and Texas primaries.
- Congratulations to Obama for winning the Vermont primary, for likely winning the Texas caucuses, and for having emerged from yesterday’s contests without having lost too much of his lead in the delegate count.
- Congratulations or condolences are in order for Pennsylvanians, who will now be rewarded for their stalwart refusal to jump on the bandwagon for ever-earlier primaries. They will likely receive the brunt of Hillary’s, Obama’s, and the media’s attention from now until their primary on 22 April.
- Condolences for Americans; considering word of irregularities in Ohio and Texas, it seems we still don’t know how to hold an election.
- Congratulations to the vast right-wing conspiracy for so effectively keeping the Dems’ battling over their nominee likely until the convention this summer.
- And finally, congratulations to Maine, Montana, New Hampshire and South Carolina, for sticking to their guns so far, and resisting the unfunded mandated privacy intrusion of Real ID.