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I would almost feel bad about airing any kind of post-election sentiment given that the fools and reactionaries (were any of them among the handful of SB readers, that is) would presumably chortle with delight… but, let’s face it, they’re going to chortle with dismally-misguided delight anyway. Despair, fear, anger, resignation, it doesn’t matter; any reaction at all, or even the absence of any proclamation, would serve their purposes adequately. These are the people who are entrenched in an endless war on straw men, after all. They adapt information to their conceptual framework rather than adapting their conceptual framework to information.

So, fuck ‘em and I’ll write what I want.

Really, I’m just kind of… lacking in much of a reaction, anyway, at least in terms of feelings. Economics offers all kinds of valuable concepts that can be used outside of the dismal science, not least among them the idea that expected news is typically “priced in” by the market, and thus the official arrival of such news does not lead to any noticeable subsequent response.

So, I suspect, with the 2010 election. We were told what to expect for months, and it pretty much happened as predicted; am I now to wail and gnash my teeth? Throw a hissyfit, stamp my feet (or otherwise behave like a TPer)? Not feeling it, sorry.
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Reading the November solicitations for products from DC, I am given pause amidst the usual eye-rolling and “this looks fucking idiotic,” etc., by the following:

SUPERMAN #705
Written by J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI
Art by EDDY BARROWS & J.P. MAYER
Cover by JOHN CASSADAY
1:10 Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE & MICHEL LACOMBE
“Grounded” part 5 brings The Man of Steel to Des Moines, Iowa! A chance encounter, however, suddenly thrusts Superman back in time. So somehow he’s Superboy again, the world is on the brink of nuclear Armageddon, and it’s all his fault! (Emphasis mine.)

I mean, in general any reference to my home state by national media is relatively rare enough (outside of caucus season) to grab my attention for at least a second. Mention of the state’s capital and my home of five years, in a comic book context, is just about unthinkable.

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Is it just me, or is it starting to seem like significant floods are becoming something of a regular event in Iowa?

Seriously… if anyone back there has started building an ark, it might actually be less than 100% crazy. Times like these the unofficial Ohio motto, “boring but safe,” certainly seems appropriate.

On the other hand, this sure is awesome:

In this day and age I can't help immediately suspecting that this is a Photoshop job, but in this case who cares. Awesome.

(This photo seems like it bounced around a number of e-mails before reaching me, though I kind of think it may be the work of this gentleman, for what that’s worth.)