Proposition Soup

Since we live out in the boonies—a precinct with less than 250 voters—we need to vote absentee. That means I’d better send in that ballot pronto. Alas, we Californians always get intimidated by a daunting list of propositions on the ballot: this time we have sixteen. It’s an ordeal to wade through, as most of time the measures are fairly technical things pushed forth by one special interest group after another. I look forward to seeing someday a proposition to make getting propositions on the ballot much, much harder.

On Saturday we’re heading over the mountains to go canvassing in Carson City, Nevada. We’ll be riding up with our friends and fellow baseball fans Susan and Barbara. Nevada is at the moment leaning Bush but we’ll see if we can do something about that.