Media predictions disappoint, sicken

The media is really good at over-stepping its bounds--all for ratings, advertisement pricing, to be first--grappling so-called bragging rights.

Exit polls are being touted, reaching for what these numbers could mean. To be clear, and pragmatic, the numbers will take form and meaning once all the numbers are in.

If I were to rely on exit polls or single-digit precinct reports, or any reports less than 100 percent for that matter, I'd be a fool. Pockets of conservatives or liberals that report early or in waves will shift the numbers back and forth like the ocean's roll--which is just as sporadic.

If I were to buy into the numbers being flaunted, I can attest to my heart breaking and disappointment in a society I have to be associated with.

The numbers acknowledge that we have an ignorant, uninformed state populous regressing to pre-enlightenment thinking.

Current law already forbids marriage between a man and a man and a woman and a woman. It's one thing to outlaw something, discriminating first against blacks, then against women and now homosexuals, it's another to write this hateful discrimination into the fabrics of our constitution--what I once considered a beacon of hope and equality.

Where will it stop? Where did the idealistic notion of a separation of church and state run off to?

The numbers continue to nauseate. Neither Gov. Jim Doyle nor challenger Mark Green should be Wisconsin's governor. Holding true to the last four elections, there is little revealed of action or platforms. The candidates only run misleading, dirty attacks about each other. It's a two-party, all-or-nothing system. What about moderates? What of those who think on a cross-partisan plane? Think of the difference that could be made with the money spent on campaigning! Think health care and prescription drug costs. Students, think education!

An advisory referendum on the return of the death penalty to the state looks like it will pass. The Wisconsin populous thinks its judges should pass God's judgment--deciding who lives and who dies?

The blatant hypocrisy is unending.

"Thou shalt not kill."

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

Wait, I thought Mosaic Law was fulfilled with Jesus' coming?

So which is it?

With such a hypocritical society, a lazy populous that doesn't fulfill its civic obligations to cast informed votes and relies on knee-jerk reactions, it's no wonder Wisconsin has sunk its progressive ship to the bottomless pit of stag-nicity.

Kant would scold you. I gladly join him.