Despite fears to the contrary, the sun did come up this morning. Perhaps you are asking yourself, "What were the big issues out there in Arizona, and how did things turn out?" The first thing you need to understand is that Arizonans put all kinds of loony nonsense on the ballot every election. There are a number of kook groups trying to pass some unnecessary measure each election. Another thing to understand is that our state is dominated by a bunch of nosy Mormons in the Phoenix area. If we could ditch the Phoenix suburbs, we might actually move out of the 18th century. There were two measures that I felt some passion about. One was a measure forced upon us by the Mormons and other right wing religious groups, along with the Catholic hierarchy, to constitutionally ban gay marriage. I had hoped that it would be defeated, but bigotry and ignorance prevailed. I also hoped for the defeat of a measure to reform the payday loan industry. That may seem odd, but the measure was a fake, put out by the scum that operate these businesses. They have an exemption from our usury laws until 2010. Our legislature has refused to extend their exemption, so they will be out of business in 2010 unless they can figure a weasel out. They had hoped that by putting a fake initiative on the ballot that purported to reform them, they could get voter approval to continue their theft into perpetuity. They lost. My Congressperson was returned to office, where she will continue to muck up things. But at least her opponent, a far right wing freak lost. Arizona went for McCain, not much surprise there. I guess our slog through the 1700s will continue. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky