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Almost four months since I last updated this thing. Huh. Well, catching up... Seattle's election day was a few days ago and while we managed to pass a public smoking ban, we voted Nay on the monorail, which is funny because the people of Seattle had voted in favor of it in each of the last five elections. Why, then, was the monorail still on the ballot? you ask? Good question. The answer is, a couple of rich douchebags who own a bunch of residential property along the proposed route of the monorail considered its construction not a convenient selling point for these homes which would now be close to a working public transit system, but rather a hinderance that blocks the view of the Space Needle,
which is inarguably the ugliest monstrosity you'll find in any city's skyline. So the people of Seattle buckled like a belt and figured, if these rich bastards are just going to get do-over after do-over on this vote until they get their way, then let's just give it to them and move on to the next item. Which was the smoking ban, which we passed, which rocks. Back to the transit issue... what baffles me most is that while the people voted agianst a state-of-the-art public transit system, we also voted in favor of an 8% gas tax. So what we're saying is, we don't want cheap and convenient public transit, we'd rather commute in our cars, and we'd like to pay even more than we currently are for the privelige. It's like choosing a $5 Pabst Blue Ribbon over a $3 pint of Guinness. It doesn't make any sense, but what can ya do?