I can sleep at night now

As they say in Texas, and should be said with a southern accent, I'm about as happy as a gopher in soft dirt.

It's a Friday, it's nice and sunny out, especially for November, Democrats control both houses of a Congress, and finally, I'm headed to Germany in a couple weeks and don't have to say "Ich bin Kanadier".

This is quite in contrast from two years ago. After the 2004 elections, we couldn't believe the electorate could be so gullible. I was tired of being treated like a political canon fodder. I was seriously considering moving out of the country. Seriously. I mean, one job offer in Europe and I'd start learning whatever non-English language I needed to and I'd be packing my bags. I'd had it.

Honestly, I couldn't sleep at night. It's one thing not to want to give me a fistful of rights. It's another thing to say, not only do I not want to give them any rights, I want to enshrine it in the constitution to make sure there's no way in hell they get it. And I couldn't stand to live in a country where people who were so hostile to me were downright celebrated as the way to run the country. Stick a fork in me, I'm done. I'm outta here.

But Tuesday reinstated my faith in the electorate. People had finally wised up to the Republican game. They don't do anything. They just spin. And ya spin people too much, they get dizzy. And they don't like that. They wised up to the game, and realized they'd been played. They don't like that feeling either.

And Tuesday was a banner day. Democrats retook the House and the Senate, which was a wilder option than any of us ever hoped on, a virtual coup.

And for the first time, an attempt to enshrine such discrimination into a state constitution failed. The reach of the right had finally met it's end.

And with the Democrats taking Congress, any hope of passing a constitutional amendment enshrining discrimination has died with it.

And with the Democrats retaking the state legislature in Minnesota, any hope of passing a state constitutional amendment enshrining discrimination has died with it.

Often times, when I can't sleep well, I don't dream. And if it's been a long time since I dreamed, the dreams come back really hard, usually in the form of a nightmare. Get the dreaming out of my system, so to speak.

And last night, I finally sleep really really well. And for the first time in a while, I dreamt. And it was a nightmare. A good long one too. Lasted probably 30-60 minutes I'm guessing.

And then I woke up. The nightmare is all over, folks.