sound the alert, more people are disgruntled with the political process.

this time it's taco bell's fault. generally i steer clear of any political "discourse," call it a character flaw, but this is too amusing to pass up. so anyway, in california, the law provides for the recall of an executive officer after only a relatively small collection of signatures on recall petitions. you've probably heard about it, the current governor, gray davis, is a crook, so naturally it's our duty to get him out of office and elect arnold schwarzenegger.

so taco bell's got this statewide "vote" taking place in their "restaurants" where people can make their voice heard through their choices of cuisine. buy a crunchy taco and your vote goes to arnold. don't like crunchy or republicans? then get a chicken soft taco and show your support for the incumbent davis. customers are getting in on it too, as a groundswell of support for democrat cruz bustamante has led taco bell to match him with the chalupa. worth noting as well, is that the remaining 133 candidates in the election are singly represented by the grilled stuft burrito, which itself has gotten some 43% of the vote. as of tuesday morning, schwarzenegger had, through the purchases of crunchy tacos, garnered 54% of the vote, while davis had managed to collect 3%.

the "election" that taco bell's staging isn't even what's funniest about this whole thing. democrat officials are pissed because they feel that taco bell's rigged the election to favor schwarzenegger, because evidently, soft chicken tacos are twice as expensive as crunchy tacos are. their belief grows out of the price difference and the fact that crunchy tacos have traditionally sold better than soft chicken tacos. they've also accused taco bell of being in cahoots with schwarzenegger, citing his ownership of a million dollars worth of PepsiCo stock, PepsiCo being the former parent company of taco bell as well as their current exclusive beverage supplier. california democratic party chairman art torres says "taco bell should stick to making tacos, not rigging elections." i'm not sure what's funnier, taco bell's "election" and the subsequent overanalytical pissing and moaning, or the inadverent amusement that comes as a result of hearing a mexican guy admonish someone to "stick to making tacos."

this is taco bell's world, we're just paying rent.

feeling: clean
thinking of: gold bond
music: "fields of athenry" dropkick murphys