Well… the election is over, mostly. And there were no terrorist attacks. And as far as I know, no perverts took the opportunity to grab a grade school kid or two. Not even in Hudson, Mass. (Are you still googling your name, Sally Morgan?)

I’ll leave the link to the electoral college predictor up for a bit, in case anyone is interested in the data.

I was hoping to take the Persistent Illusion Magical Lucky Charms Level down today. But it appears will have to suffer with such insanity for another four years.

Be afraid… be very afraid.

Today at the Taipei zoo a man leaped into the lion’s den in an apparent attempt to convert the King of Beasts to Christianity.

“Jesus will save you!” the 46-year-old man shouted at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away.

“Come bite me!” he said with both hands raised, television footage showed.

Not surprisingly, one of the lion’s obliged. Fortunately the lion was well fed, or the result might have been worse. But zoo workers were able to drive the lion off with water hoses.

Now, it runs in my mind that this is a pretty damn good analogy to the current election results, such as they stand.

If Bush is elected (and that now seems fairly likely, although not certain), it appears that much of his vote came from grass-roots campaigning among voters who consider themselves born-again Christians.

Although currently apparently dozing, The Republic is a very large lion and it grows hungrier. Be very careful, you in the right-wing who are programming your trained chimp to spout your religion-based messages. Attempting a conversion to a theocracy will get you bitten. And I’m fairly certain that no one is standing by with a water hose.