The Green Bag

I've made a conscious decision to not blog about politics here. I've decided that if I get the burning desire to tackle political issues, I'll take them over to chacadwa.com and air them there, but the past couple of times I was going to do that, I decided that it wasn't that important, and didn't blog it at all. But this ain't about politics directly, it's about the ads. And there's a lot I could going to say about those, but I'll limit myself to this:

Sometimes, political ads backfire. Badly. There is a particular proposal on the ballot - I'm not going to say which one, because that's irrelevant - and the only information I have about that proposal at all is the negative radio ads that run against it. I have no doubt that ever word of those ads are true. For a given value of true. These ads are incredibly insulting to my intelligence, because they're so blatantly spinning the facts to get an emotional reaction.

So, given no other information on this issue, I will probably vote in favor of it, simply because of my reaction to the ads against it. That's too bad, really. I should be voting based on research and facts, but I don't see the need to do so. Being manipulated by the opposition, and knowing it, is enough for me on this one.