I found this diet coke in my refrigerator today. It’s completely frozen inside. What’s really confusing is that it was sitting directly next to 5 other cokes in the fridge – all of which are not frozen.

Those who know me realize that I really don’t care about losing a Diet Coke. To make matters worse, I recently ‘won’ a lot of 2 liters of coke products. I think I’m somewhere around 85 2-liters (they are coupons for 5 each). I don’t drink that much coke and I don’t have storage for them. I’m thinking of having some kind of contest on my blog so that people could win them from me. Do you have any ideas? Should I just give them to people who happen to read this?

Why do we let our legislators get away with whatever we want? Congressmen are up in arms because Representative Jefferson (from my wonderfully intelligent city — although not my district), who has about 4 times the hard evidence on him to convict an ordinary person on bribery charges, had his office raided by the FBI over the weekend. Our congressmen are angry because they don’t want the FBI to be able to investigate them.

So basically, our congress writes all of the laws that we must follow. But they don’t want to have to follow them. They write the rules for how corrupt they can be. They write their own paychecks with our money. They know that they never have to be accountable because the people don’t pay attention to their representatives. Incumbents almost always get re-elected because no one cares or knows any better.

I hope that there are just a few bad apples in the bunch, but outbursts about the unconstitutionality of a police raid by almost the whole congress makes me think that the power has gotten to all of them.

As my blog degrades into a politcal commentary…

Yes, I voted again. Once again, I find myself pre-voting because I’m a master at planning weekends that I will be away for. Mary Landrieu did not vote with me this time, though I’m sure she would be happier with my choices today. It was easier and faster this time: less voter demand and fewer voting choices.

The best scene was out in the street in front of City Hall. This black lady was on her cell phone shouting, “I done voted for Ray Nagin. MMmhhmmm. I voted for Ray Nagin.” Continuously. It was a great reminder, before voting, of why I was not voting for C Ray.

Hopefully this election will turn out as positive as the runoff.