Next Steps

26 Now it is not common that the voice of the people desireth anything contrary to that which is right; but it is common for the lesser part of the people to desire that which is not right; therefore this shall ye observe and make it your law-to do your business by the voice of the people.
- Book of Mormon | Mosiah 29:26

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
- Abraham Lincoln

The people have spoken. And for the first time in more than a decade, we have a candidate who has won the popular vote. When the vote tallies are certified, and Ohio gets assigned to a column, my prediction is that George W. Bush will not need a change of address form. For the next four years, anyway.

So, what's next? Hopefully, compassion, understanding, and acceptance. It'll be easy for me to refrain from the classic Nelson Muntz laugh - finger pointing, a sneer of disdain, and the inevitable "ha, ha". (I always preferred the more traditional forms of evil laughter, anyway) I'm vastly outnumbered on campus, and there's always the possibility that someone could vent a big freakin' spleen on ya. Besides which, that kind of behavior only serves to divide, not unite. We need to stop tearing our country asunder.

It's now really a war for the hearts and minds of our own people.

Thank goodness it's not quite the uphill battle I feared.

In the meantime, I've got a fever. And the only perscription... is more cowbell!

[Listening to: Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult ]