February 12, 2008
-
I’ve had about enough of fucking winter. Now I want to stress that I genuinely do like winter. Honestly, I like all the seasons. And I don’t mind either of the extremes; extreme heat or extreme cold. Neither seem to last for more than a few days. However, we are just getting so much snow lately. And its not even that its a lot of snow each time. For the most part its only an inch or two. Its that it seems to be always during rush hour. So that means not only do I have to clean my car off damn near each time I go to it, but also it takes longer to get places because the roads have snow on them and most people drive unreasonably slow with snow on the road. So both adds to more time spent getting home or to wherever I need to go. It sucks.
See, when snow starts usually sometime in November, its a novelty and everybody loves it. Winter is romantic and snow is beautiful. Football games seem more intense when its cold and there is snow on the field. Then comes December and everybody wants a white Christmas so they like it even more. Then comes January and its kind of like that relative that came for the holidays and refuses to leave. All of a sudden its like “Oh, you’re still here? Well whatever, just don’t totally overtake my life.” Then comes February. Mardi Gras, spring training, Valentine’s Day, you know, all that shit. You start to yearn for spring. After 3 months of this bullshit, you are just like “E-fucking-nough already! No more damn snow!!” Back in November you used to happily glide on the ice. Now all of a sudden you are slipping and falling and thinking “Who did I fuck do to deserve this?” Your skin is dry and chapped because of the cold, dry air. You are so ready for it to be over but instead of it ending, there seems to be no end in sight, kind of like a bad movie or the Iraq war. It seems to be colder than Dick Cheney’s heart. I can’t think of a way to end this, so I’ll just stop.
The confusion continues with the primaries. Obama had a clean sweep again today, yet for some reason, he is only slightly ahead of Clinton. In one of the primaries he won by like 30% of the vote, yet somehow was only 2 delegates ahead for that state. In D.C. he won by 50%, yet only gained 3 delegates. Now I know if you win the state you don’t get all the delegates but instead they are divided up. Still, how the delegates get split doesn’t make a damn bit of sense. I think it somehow breaks down by where the votes are being cast so that the counties with more people are give more weight. But, even by this thinking it still doesn’t make sense. Obama has more than doubled Clinton in states won and usually wins those states by a fairly significant margin, yet somehow is only beating her by 20 some odd delegates and is getting his ass kicked in super delegates. Meanwhile McCain has the Republican nomination all but wrapped up which means the longer this damn thing drags out, the worse it is for the Democrats.
