Oliver Stone's Alexander has flopped and thus Americans are homophobes. Is homophobia going to be the excuse for everything anybody on the Left does that doesn't work out as planned for the next 4 years?

The LJ blog of the 16 year old girl who had mer mom killed (allegedly). More details on the whole fiasco here.

JoBlo has a good picture up of what Dr. Doom from the Fantastic 4 movie looks like. Reminds me (and them) alot of the Green Goblin from the Spiderman movie. Not a good thing.

I've got a new design up at Not An Exit | A Bret Easton Ellis Celeblog.

I've also posted a picture of my Lunar Park manuscript - which is all but confirmed as the title of Bret Easton Ellis' new novel due out in 2005.

Both via Drudge:

Police broke out the 50,000 volt taser gun against a 6 year old who was threatening himself with a broken piece of glass.

An 11 year old girl was suspended for doing cartwheels and handstands during lunch/recess. The school claims they are too 'dangerous'.

The Steelers just destroyed the previously undefeated Eagles (much like they did to the Patriots last week) 27-3. The number that gets me excited is time of possession 41.5 for Pittsburgh vs 17.5 for the Eagles. And no 3rd down conversions for the Eagles. Thats quite an ass-whuppin.

Kottke on why Bush won:

Half the country is not stupid. We're all stupid.

Thats a more reasonable reaction to the election results than 90% of what I've seen written on Dem blogs so far.

This meme that we 'do things not in our own self-interest' when it comes to politics is going to get major play over the next week or so. Its crap though.

Politically, its impossible to pick a candidate/party that is entirely consistent with your self-interests. Unless you are running for a position yourself, it just ain't gonna happen. So we have to then order our interests and choose which are most important.

Nobody votes against their own most important self-interest. But to an observer it may appear that way, because they don't necessarily order their self-interests in the same manner in which the person they are observing does.

TomPaine.com is claiming Kerry won. See, it wasn't that the exit polls were wrong, its that the vote was stolen - again.

Most voters in Ohio thought they were voting for Kerry. CNN's exit poll showed Kerry beating Bush among Ohio women by 53 percent to 47 percent. Kerry also defeated Bush among Ohio's male voters 51 percent to 49 percent. Unless a third gender voted in Ohio, Kerry took the state.

So what's going on here? Answer: the exit polls are accurate. Pollsters ask, "Who did you vote for?" Unfortunately, they don't ask the crucial, question, "Was your vote counted?" The voters don't know.

Its not as if anybody has ever lied to a pollster, or gamed the system, right. And there's no chance whatsoever that it could have just been a bad sample. Oh, and there's that pesky margin of error too.

But nah, lets not even mention those possibilities. Nope, the exit polls were right and Kerry would be President today if not for those bastard racist homophobe Repugs stealing the election.

This is so healthy for the Dems. In 2000, they didn't like the result of the Electoral College - and starting crying that we should use the Popular Vote to pick the President. Well, now they've lost the Popular Vote too, so Exit Polls are the new preferred method.

Michael Barone on possible Dem stragety in regards to the exit polls (via The Corner):

My own suspicion is that some Democrats—at the command level, or somewhere below—had an election-day project of slamming the results. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Pennsylvania initial exit poll results had huge margins for Kerry—much larger percentages than he won in any pre-election poll. If somebody had slipped some Democratic operative the list of exit poll sites—40 to 50 sites in each critical state—he or she could have slipped several hundred operatives into the polling places to take the exit poll ballots and vote for Kerry. The results would have shown Kerry much farther ahead than he actually was and, broadcast through drugdereport.com and other sources, could have heartened Kerry supporters during the afternoon and disheartened Bush supporters. When I was active in Democratic politics, in 1964-80, it would have occurred to us to do no such thing. But Democrats these days are so filled with a sense of grievance and with a feeling of justification for employing any dirty tactics to win, that this is not unthinkable. If people can game the exit polls, there's not much point to having exit polls any more.

Taranto reports that of the 27 candidates MoveOn.org endorsed - only 5 won.

Seems to me that one thing thats being lost in most of the election coverage (and not so much today, but last night) was how poorly the Dems did in the House/Senate/Gov races. They flat got their asses handed to them.

Will some Lefty blogs be part of the fallout surrounding Kerry's loss? Red State points out that Daily Kos has been pumping up 15 congressional candidates this cycle, with their readers pouring in over half a million dollars to support them. The result - all 15 were defeated. Ouch.

All told, that's $547,157.97 of donated money, squandered on the basis of the mass trust placed in Moulitsas by his readers. ...The missing element in the Kos Dozen was sound, basic political judgment, informing the decisions on whom to fund, and in whom the donors could place their trust. And therein is the second lesson to be learned: mastery of the mechanisms of netroots mobilization is a different thing from mastery of the methods. Someone in the DCCC is laughing tonight at the humiliation of a bete noir who refused to grasp the value of wisdom and experience in politics -- and paid for it with a hugely expensive and very public 100% failure rate.

Well, Kerry just conceded the election - which was the right thing to do. He could have challenged in Ohio, but it doesn't look like the numbers would have went his way regardless. Bush is probably going to end up with 286 electoral votes this time, about what I expected.

My Daschle victory prediction was wrong, but he may have been hurt by his last minute lawsuit claiming that poll watchers writing things down and rolling their eyes was tantamount to intimidation.

The Dem party is really in a world of hurt right now. It'll be very interesting to see if they continue to embrace guys like Michael Moore that have moved the party left over the last few years.

Slant Point gets it right about where the Dems go from here.

As of 12:09 Central time:
269!

So now that the Dems have lost, here's hoping that they can just cry in their beer rather than trying to piss in mine.

Just voted. Suprisingly had just over an hour wait in line to do so. Stacy voted a bit before me and she had a 90 minute wait and early this morning there was at least an hour wait as well. So turnout appears to be very high - even here in a heavily Republican area.

Adam Curry has some info on the Dutch filmmaker who was assasinated - apparently because of an movie he helped create that portrayed Islam in a negative light.