Miscellany and a Recommendation

Still no decision in the close race for City Council here. None of the write-in votes were for either of the two candidates - why would it be? There’s some talk of saying the votes couldn’t count if they weren’t for a certified candidate. That’s obviously not going to fly - otherwise there couldn’t be a legitimate write-in campaign. I am afraid that at least some of the write-ins were for something like “Donald Duck”, “Mickey Mouse”, or some such. We used to get those when we were election officials in one of our earlier lives. They may give the writer a sense of satisfaction, but they obviously have no idea of what a pain they cause election officials. Oh, well….

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The Tennessee legislature is posturing again. They seem to have legalized all they can about guns (can carry in state parks, churches, bars, in cars in parking lots, etc.), so now they’re taking up knives. Seems that somebody is trying to make it legal to carry switchblade knives now. And one state senator is planning to introduce a bill barring non-US-citizens from polling places. This, of course, is to protect the good people of Tennessee from having UN observers watching our elections. Sigh………..

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On the good side of the news, the CEO of Costco has announced that they’re going to pay their “minimum wage” workers $10.00/hour (rather than the $9.00/hour that Obama has proposed). This certainly is a nice contrast to the owner of Papa John’s Pizza who wanted to cut his employees’ hours so he didn’t have to provide health insurance for them. (I think he’s backed off that now, though.)

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I want to put in a plug for one of my favorite blogs - a site that I check first thing every day, That's My Answer!  Indigo poses at least one simple question every day, and readers write in their answers - sometimes posting a question. The regulars get some interesting discussions going, and we love getting new “answerers” to show up to shake things up and make us think. Give it a try.