YES, I’M STILL HERE, STILL PAYING ATTENTION. I haven’t posted in a long while, as long whiles are measured on election day. But I am sitting here taking in the news, reading a few websites and watching a few news channels on TV. The TV pundits are making me nervous. I’m not going to name names — not yet at least — but some of the partisan pundits come on and play a heavy-handed mind game, gloating “you lose!” in so many words. I wish I could think of something to say that might be helpful, but I’m looking at the same things you are, and what is going to happen is going to happen. We bloggers aren’t playing a role shaping any opinion anymore. The current game is just about shaping how people feel about what has happened as we slowly learn of it. That’s the sort of thing that doesn’t interest me at all. I’d prefer if everyone could make it through the night without feeling too bad and emerge the next day with a reasonably optimistic attitude about the future.