Belated Election Post &c

Wow. I can't believe I haven't posted anything to the Blog since before I left for Knoxville.

The Conference was great. All the papers were good, the food was good, the company pleasant, and the Webmaster's award ( a plaque and a signed Cormac McCarthy book) was a complete suprise.

The Marty Party went off well, too. Lots of folks, lots of food, lots of fun, and a late ending. It's always a good party when the last guests leave at 5 a.m.

I'm still not used to non-daylight savings time. It's gettin' dark way too early here.

I'm also happy that W. won the election. No surprise there, for anyone who's read more than a couple posts here.

I don't much like it that the "referendum on Iraq and the War," once W. won it, became "the moral values election."

And — as to the influence of the fundamentalist/evangelical vote — some of the people looking down their noses at the inbred evangelicals ought to occasionally attend churches; they're public places, after all. I suspect that most of the talking heads who are paid to have opinions haven't ever even been to church in a red state. Some evangelicals are nuts, but most that I've known aren't.