My Washington is quickly catching up with the other Washington in terms of it's reputation for political absurdity. I liked what local brick and mortar blogger Ken Schram (of Ewww, Some Schram In The Street! fame) had to say about our wacky State Supreme Court and their latest impish hijink (which attracted the attention of the Skeptical Curmudgeoun and Space Bunny's Masseur). I suggest hosing the whole State with holy water instead of using nukes, that way it'll just kill the law school graduates. Once again I am left wondering how many years of law school it takes before the principle of punishing A for violating the rights of B by pretending not to know what you found out as a result of the violation. Isn't the retribution for breaking the law usually supposed to be some kind of PUNISHMENT levied at THE PARTY THAT BROKE THE LAW? Maybe the principle involved is one of those things that seems less horrifically wrong if you use the latin name for it, like "prepuce".

Meanwhile, each "recount" in our gubernatorial race counts new votes that haven't been counted before. Rossi's 261 vote lead in the original count is down the memory hole - The mantra is that the "recount" going on now is neccessary (and would have been demanded by Rossi were the situation reversed) because his lead was only one of 40 votes. This was only the case AFTER the first "recount", in which Gregoire's buds managed to dig up a bunch of extra votes. When they say that every vote must be counted (another mantra of the blue county people, they've got a lot of them, at least this one dosen't start "Hey hey, ho ho"), they are refering to mismarked ballots as "votes".