The Rocky Mountain News puts forth its arguments for voting against Amendment 36. The proposed amendment in Colorado would make Colorado's election of electors proportional instead of the more common winner-take-all plan of 48 states. Their first argument is that it would reduce Colorado's influence in selecting a president. However they don't disclose their interest in keeping it. The true interest has less to do with what is best for the people of Colorado. The argument is that a candidate won't spend time in a state with a 4-5 difference in electors compared to a state with winner-take-all and 9 electors. What is more to the point for the Rocky Mountain News is that their ad revenue will decrease if the "interest" of the candidates decreases.

Here a huge media company portrays the interest of Colorado voters as it's main point. However it fails to mention that for decades media companies of all sizes have depended on the revenue from elections to provide great profits.

In the category of things that really don't matter... Watching Real Time with Bill Maher tonight I was puzzled by the map in the background. The map is a map of the United States with cities highlighted on it. Normal enough. For example New Mexico has Albuquerque and Santa Fe, Arizona has Phoenix and Tucson. Colorado has Denver and Utah has Salt Lake City. All pretty normal. Generally large cities and some smaller state capitals. The curiosity is that Nevada has only Carson City and not Las Vegas. Odd.

Spent a large part of the day putting up fence along the back property line. The new neighbors got the materials and we worked with them to get the posts in and ready to hang the fence tomorrow. Having it up is making it more desirable to get the front done as well. That's all good but I needed to do some computer work this weekend. Also got a lot of updates done to the Sandy Valley page. Perhaps I should get going and set up a community site and see if there aren't some bloggers hiding out in these parts.