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07/09/2004: "Knots Landing"

In the middle of all the grief, the hilarious becomes hysterical. I had Z's dad on the phone, and I mentioned that I'd seen our friend the senator. "Is he out on bail?" It was all in the local paper, as it turned out; and K and I laughed over it later. A local election was being disputed by the challenger, who lost by eleven votes. His side darkly accuses the senator of electioneering, going into the voting booth with addled voters, exhorting them to "vote the line", and other nefarious influences. senator says, "It's a crock." They're "sore losers". The polling place was in the community center of the retirement village where Senator lives, and he went down, voted, and socialized for a while. Someday I'll have to tell you about the time I saw him set himself on fire.