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The drill is broken again, in a different way... I'm now caught up on all of the cores that have come up this week. Time to practice for my talk, I guess...
We're either inundated with incoming material (drill working) or sitting on our hands (drill busted)... griping about the results of the California recall over breakfast, and ongoing... it is hard to explain to the Spanish how that process, in which someone that receives 33% of the vote defeats someone with 47%, is democratic. Once again, I feel like an apologist abroad ("not all Americans are ignorant or that easily manipulated, honestly...").
We're either inundated with incoming material (drill working) or sitting on our hands (drill busted)... griping about the results of the California recall over breakfast, and ongoing... it is hard to explain to the Spanish how that process, in which someone that receives 33% of the vote defeats someone with 47%, is democratic. Once again, I feel like an apologist abroad ("not all Americans are ignorant or that easily manipulated, honestly...").