I'm still getting used to these conditions I've been living under since I hit 40, and had to acknowledge to myself that I'm middle aged.
Contemporary pop culture is now an unfathomable mystery. I can no longer wear my baseball cap backward without looking like an idiot. Worse, I starting to suspect that I NEVER could! And I can't stay up until 2 a.m. on Wednesday without still feeliing it Thursday.
All of which is an unforgivably convoluted way of saying that my butt is still dragging from covering the primaries Tuesday night.
I'm not complaining, though. I'm enough of a geek to find politics entertaining. And it always does my heart good to see the people who care enough about their communities to go out and vote in municipal primaries.
Thank God for the self-appointed government watchdogs. They keep this big ol' engine of democracy humming (albeit with a sometimes strident undertone).
Although sometimes the more fiscally conservative government watchdogs fall back on a generalization that I know for a fact to be erroneous. It's the belief that all government workers are slackers.
Yes, I'm sure you could point to any sufficiently large government entity and find waste and incompetence. You could make the point that entire agencies serve no useful purpose.
But frankly, I get irritated with the lazy assumption that "government worker" is synonymous with "bumbling parasite." Personally, I've met plenty of people in government who are good at their jobs.
Once again, I;ve chosen a very convoluted way t get ot my point, which is that I think the folks at the York County elections office did a fine job on Tuesday night.
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