When the chads settled this morning, there was good news in Ohio and good news in Texas.

In Ohio, the ag industry’s animal care board “sailed” through, you can read more on it at AgWeb.

And in Texas, we approved a constitutional amendment  aimed at keeping bureaucrats from taking our stuff to give to their friends. You can read that story from the Dallas Morning News.
 

I would pontificate about how important those votes are and how significant the wide margins of victory are, but then I remembered watching the cable news last night with all those wise people telling us what to think minute by minute and then this morning I saw video from the Onion, which sort of sums up the value punditry gone wild. You can, and should, see it:

And I decided to make this blog brief.