The political season is in its final innings here on the South End. Down at the Diner the debates continue unabated, but practically everywhere else, we\u2019re wore down, depleted, dejected and pretty much exhausted with the whole damn thing. Even the Pilot House, once Hotbed Central for lively late night alcohol fueled discussions, even the Pilot House has turned its short span of attention to the college basketball tournaments and the pre-season baseball scores. <\/p>\n
The tulips are coming in early up north in the fields of La Conner. I was thinking maybe going there instead of the caucus this Saturday. Last time I went to a caucus it was Carter running against Reagan. All the local politicos were in attendance. And me and the mizzus. We never really understood the process and we never went back. I like voting in private, to tell you the truth, not in small groups of people I don\u2019t really know. The tulips, I get tulips. They come in early some years and some years late and rarely, but it happens, they bloom on time. This year they\u2019re way early and the Festival, that two week traffic jam miles and miles long, well, it\u2019s going to be pretty much after the harvest.<\/p>\n
I spoze the folks stuck in the colorful backup out in the flats can while away the hours arguing whether global warming is to blame or if the low price of gas is a blessing or not. The big tour buses can haul up the city folks for a slow creep through the countryside and hope for a few fields of blazing candy color seen vaguely through the rain. Us locals pretty much avoid the whole show now. You\u2019ve seen one tulip field, you\u2019ve kind of got the idea. <\/p>\n
I wish I could say the same about elections. I\u2019ve seen a few, but \u2026 this one is very very strange. Maybe even troubling. Says a little too much about my neighbors, for sure, but hey, that\u2019s the price of democracy. Nobody says you have to be sane to vote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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