One Man's Propaganda vs Another's Truth

Sometimes you have to count the votes. If you can find a way to count the votes before the deadline, you can plan accordingly.

It's always interesting to hear dueling propaganda machines in contest. Mugabe and Tsvangirai duke it out in Zimbabwe, but "The Robert" has already counted the votes. The bulls and the bears contend on Wall Street, but a 380-point drop in the market is sure to drive more dollars toward "armchair investors" in foreclosed housing units...and we all know where that leads.

The New York Times reported yesterday that rising fuel costs were making exurbanists into extinctionists, with McMansion prices falling at about twice the rate of housing in urban centers with walkable neighborhoods.

Jeb Bush and George Bush are at odds, and J.E.B.'s successor, Charlie Crist, scuttles Florida's perennial obstinance toward offshore drilling in hopes it will win him the nod as John McCain's running mate in 2008.

Take a proper gander at the propaganda you hear in New Albany during the next 90 days. The side that can count the votes before the deadline has the advantage.

Constitutional issues are in flux, of course. Five men say you have an unalterable right to own and use a gun, which ought to make the remarkable Yalanda Parrish's lawyers happy. But no judge in most people's lifetimes has upheld the constitutionality of unequal legislative districts. That's a 100% vote count, all on one side of the ledger. Plan accordingly.

Speaking of public officials who don't, here's another vote count reported to NA Shadow Council. Pro - 85, Con - 13. Plan accordingly.