Back again!

Wish I could say I'd missed posting for the past week because I was in some fabulous, exotic, incredible place being pampered to within an inch of my life, but sad truth is, I've been right here, working. Too busy and/or tired to blog, answer email, surf the Net or anything else.

In the time since I last posted, Tulsa has decided on the final two candidates for the mayoral election next month. Good news or bad? Let's see . . . does this give you a clue: "the lesser of two evils"?

Just how do you decide which is the lesser evil, though?

Maybe a better old adage is "Better the devil you know than the one you don't."

Though I doubt that applies in this case. We know Bill LaFortune has been a bad mayor who "misspeaks" a lot. On the other hand, his opponent, Kathy Taylor, just recently paid big fines for tax fraud -- she couldn't remember whether her primary place of residence was her multi-million-dollar Oklahoma home or her multi-million-dollar Florida home, so she claimed homestead exemptions in both states. She had driver's licenses in both states -- another crime. She voted in the 2000 presidential election in both states -- another crime. Unfortunately, the statute of limitations has expired on the voter fraud. Shucks! I had hopes of seeing the first Tulsa mayor taken out of office in handcuffs. That would have been worth all the crap of the endless campaign.

Oh, well . . . there's a reason we didn't retire to Tulsa. Too bad we still have to see their politicians on TV all the time, shop there, pay the ridiculous taxes they vote in . . . Makes me dream of a mountain in the middle of nowhere! Rachel5:34 PM