Ah well, what can you do? At least we're guaranteed a better president in four years. Dave G offers some words of encouragement. It's time to learn how to talk to christian fundamentalists. Invite some Mormons over, have tea. Seriously, the only way out of this mess is to start learning to communicate with "the other side" whatever that means. There are groups of idiot extremists on both "sides" of the election, but for the most part, people have pretty reasonable reasons for why they voted one way or the other. Anil Dash writes another good piece that touches on this.

One of the main reasons Bush won is that all Kerry did was bash him. "I have a plan! bashbush bashbush bashbush..." He could never stand up and say "my plan is to find a way to communicate with everyone". It was that negativity (which was capitalized upon by Republican spinsters who kept claiming Bush was an "Optimist") which brought him down in a time when people are really uneasy and looking for hope. Of course idiots like the 'swift boat veterens' didn't help matters. But so ot goes. I'm a really poor political commentator, but I felt compelled to say something.

Time for a bike ride.