Every Wednesday, I go to My Gym with Katherine for an hour-long session with other three year olds.  We then go out for pizza at Papa Gino's next door.  So this week, I'm there with a mommy friend who has just started the South Beach Diet (low carb type thing).  So she's being really good, and she orders a Caesar salad.

 

"What kind of dressing would you like with that?" asks the cashier.

 

My friend says, "well, I ordered a Caesar salad, doesn't it come with Caesar dressing?"

 

"We're out of Caesar" replies the cashier

 

OK, so that's kindof funny enough.  So she gets a balsamic vinaigrette.  Then, when we get to the table, we look at the salad, and both realize that a Caesar salad (hold the Caesar dressing) is the worst salad to get if you can't get the dressing, because there's nothing in it but lettuce.  No tomatos, onions, or anything.  And to top it off, it has croutons on it, which are against the diet.

 

We'll try again next week.

So I voted for Kerry, in case you were wondering.  He didn't win, and I'm actually very happy that he conceded and let the legal battles go.  Better to just move on at this point.  The most disturbing thing I heard related to the election was on NPR, where they reported for much of the morning that the biggest issue voters were talking about was not Iraq, or jobs, or the economy, but "moral issues".  I'm not sure what moral issues they meant, but people who felt strongly about "moral issues" voted overwhelmingly for Bush.

 

This was disturbing for a number of reasons, but mainly because I don't think you can win the presidency and still feel good about your own morality.  I mean, the script for winning a presidency is pretty well known.  You start with the radical side of your party, get some support, and then move to the center as the election draws near.  Bush, for example, championed a constitutional ammendment to ban gay marriages and civil unions at the Republican National Convention. But then last week, on Good Morning America, he told Charlie Gibson that he supports state's rights to enact civil union legislation, and that he disagreed with the plank in the republican party platform that contradicts that position.  I'm not pointing that out to Bush bash, I'm pointing it out because every presidential candidate has to do that in order to get elected.

 

But on morality, I guess I have a severe disagreement with 51% of the voters.  I don't think you can view our "war on terror" as moral.  I think the issue is that voters believe he has Christian morals, and are confusing the two.

 

At any rate, I'll leave it at that.  Locally, I'm elated to inform my regular readers that Carl Sciortino did win the general election for a state representative seat, beating the sticker campaign of the incumbent, Vincent Ciampa.  I heard stories of minor bits of ugliness at the pols from both sides, but it seemed to be a generally peaceful election here in Medford.