{"id":2119,"date":"2008-11-05T11:14:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2008-11-05T11:14:27","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:14:27","slug":"and-i-for-one-welcome-our-new-insect-overlords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/11\/05\/and-i-for-one-welcome-our-new-insect-overlords\/","title":{"rendered":"And I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Local&#8221; politics.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Siskiyou_County,_California\">Siskiyou County<\/a>, CA (on the CA\/OR border), where I grew up (population 44301, population density 8 per square mile, median household income $29530), voted 53.6 percent for McCain and 43.7 percent for Obama.  That&#8217;s extremely close for a very red county (2004 it was 60 percent Bush, 37.7 Kerry.)  In other local Siskiyou County news a giant Salmon was found just to the south of Siskiyou County in the Sacramento River.<br \/>\nOne can tell that Seattle is once again lagging the nationwide economy (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/seattle\/stories\/2008\/10\/27\/daily21.html\">yep<\/a>), since the voters were in a mood to spend money.  (Okay well Western Washington always wants to spend money&#8230;especially on Monorails.  I mean not on Monorails&#8230;.I mean especially on Monorails.  Wait, I mean not on Monorais&#8230;)  Sound Transit Prop 1 (extended light rail and buses), Parks Funding and Pike Place Market Repair Funding Seattle Props 1 and 2 all passed.  My dog was happy with the Parks funding as it should help get a dog park closer to our home.  I haven&#8217;t told her that the dog park might not include a place to swim.  The exception to the spending spree was probably the state vote on I-985 (traffic congestion), which went down.<br \/>\nIn a strong Washington tradition, the governors race has been called by some media, but the vote counting is not done.  That race has been very nasty of late, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.com\/html\/governorsrace\/2008329127_rossitestimony30m.html\">with lawyers swearing at each other.<\/a>  Lawyers are so cute when they try to intimidate each other.<br \/>\nIn national news, a pseudo-professor like myself one the big one.  See what can happen when you turn down tenure?  I went outside and banged some pots and pans together in honor of my Great Grandma Bacon who was a staunch Democrat in a family of Republicans (she used to send my father a roll of Roosevelt dimes every year to tweak my grandfather.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Local&#8221; politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-seattle","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}