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.