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Since there was no football on this past weekend (NONE) I had to find something to entertain myself. That something was HBO’s very under-rated show The Wire. Some people have been talking about it for a while, but I never listened. Kinda like how I’ve never listened on Deadwood either. That theme just doesn’t really appeal to me, but I’m sure when I actually do watch it it’ll rock just as hard.

Anyway, I’ve been watching some of season 1 and, since I finally have an apartment now, have the season 4 episodes On Demand. The show is awesome and if you’re not watching it you should. It’s about life in West Baltimore, but don’t let the fact that Baltimore is such a garbage city turn you off.

Not quite the same ring, but who cares? Oh yeah, and the victory was ugly as balls. But again, who cares? We have four more games of Calvin (sad), four more games of KaMichael (very sad), four more games of Reggie (not quite as sad, but still kinda sad), and nine more seniors who have worked their asses off to become the best Tech team in years. A win at home versus Duke, and the first win in 5 years against UGA up in Athens is all this team needs to cement it’s legacy in the top GT teams of all time.

Of course, no need to stop there. With an invite already booked for the ACC Championship Game, Tech has a shot at their first conference title since 1998, and the first unanimous title since the National Championship year of 1990. That would feel great.

So, election results are in. Democrats took both houses of Congress, which is no huge surprise. Me updating twice within the same month is though. So be happy.

My favorite part of yesterday is that 1/2 of the people responsible for pushing internet gambling legislation are no longer a part of Congress. Bill Frist resigned his seat thinking that he was going to make a run at the Presidency. Well, he’s not really to high among the contenders according to Tradesports right now, but he’s out of office so eff him.

Also, Rep. Jim Leach went down in Iowa’s 2nd district, which was a decent surprise.  He had been running close in the polls with Loebsack, but I don’t think many people actually expected him to lose.  It was also nice to see such a close race (decided by less than 6000 votes) have more than its final margin come from Johnson County, home of the University of Iowa.  I can only hope that the students there were as upset at the poker ban as anyone, and it changed a few votes or brought a few more out that could’ve won it for Leach.

The final two douchebags are still around.  Sen. Jon Kyl beat Jim Pederson pretty handily by about 100k votes out in Arizona.  However, it was nice to see Pederson close well at the end of the campaign, and hopefully some of that came from the poker money pouring in at ActBlue.

Finally, Rep. Bob Goodlatte won handily in Virginia’s 6th district race, and wasn’t even challenged by a Democrat.  Oh well, what are you gonna do?  Hopefully he at least gets the stick out of his ass about the whole thing.  Also, a note to other states, Virginia’s website for election results is awesome.  It’s easy to understand, and you can find all interesting breakdowns of the data very quickly.  Be more like Virginia.

Ahh, voting time. When I get to drive 45 minutes each way to do something that will almost certainly have no effect. Whatever.

You can see the Fayette County ballot here, so check it out.

As for me, I’ll be voting as follows:

People
Governor: Garrett Hayes (L)
Lt Gov: Allen Buckley (L)
Secretary of State: Karen Handel (R)
Attorney General: Thurbert Baker (D)
Comm of Agriculture: Tommy Irvin (D)
Comm of Insurance: John Oxendine (R)
State Superintendent: Cathy Cox (R)
US Rep: Mike McGraw (D)
Everything else is either unopposed or I’ll just vote against the incumbent

Amendments
Restrict Eminent Domain: Yes
Protect traditions of fishing and hunting*: No
Allow state to dedicate revenue from specialty license plates: No

Referenda
6 different ways to tax people: No

*- Yes, that is actually what the amendment is called on the ballot. I hate rednecks.