Fascinating How People Can't Follow Directions

As many of you know there is a close recount for the US Senate Seat in Minnesota. Less than 300 votes separate the incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and challenger Democrat Al Franken. The state is currently in the midst of a hand recount of all ballots. About 6,000 ballots have been challenged by the two camps. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has taken 10% of the controversial ballots and scanned them in as PDF's and are having the general public vote on what the "intent" of the voter was. I'm done with just over 100 and it still continues to fascinate me how many different ways the voter blew it or conversely, how the machine completely didn't register the voters clear intent.

Here's the link to the sample controversial ballots.

Milk March

Thirty years ago this week, Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to a major political office in the United States, was killed by a fellow supervisor, Dan White. San Francisco Mayor George Moscone was also killed in the same event.

Alyn, the guy I'm dating who lives in Atlanta, is here visiting this Thanksgiving weekend. We attended the memorial service at City Hall and then particpated in the march from Civic Center to the location of Milk's Camera Store on Castro Street.

The San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus with Tom Ammiano (my district supervisor for a decade now headed to the California Assembly as my Assemblyman)

Candlelight March up Market Street

Myself and Alyn in front of the Castro Theater