Of Time Lags and the Fabric of Reality

For some unknown reason, it seems to take long periods of time for the people charged with (or self-appointed to) investigate such things as wars and elections to get in gear. Just the other day, for instance, as Jamie writes below, a US Senator "discovered" that he had been given false information before voting on the authorization of force against Iraq. Smooth move, Mr. Edwards. That was in 2003, wasn't it? I guess we can expect your analysis of the Plame affair by 2009.

When it comes to elections, we haven't got it much better. Anomalies and mathematical impossibilities keep popping up, and we are approaching the logic point where we have to decide whether the election of 2004 was definitely, absolutely stolen by the Republican Party, or whether these anomalies are the result of tears in the space-time continuum that signal some greater looming problem. Perhaps a complete reversal of time? All atoms exploding at the speed of light? The earth imploding like the house at the end of Poltergeist?

Or, I suppose, we could just keep putting together the pieces for the indictment of American Republicans and their love of fixing elections. Either option, though, leads to a dystopian nightmare. At least being sucked into a black hole and having our matter tugged and rent into infinitely small particles is quick and relatively painless, unlike watching helplessly as democracy gets gang raped by the GOP.