Losing Sucks.

If you write about winning, you have an obligation to write about losing. On Wednesday, I lost. Losing Sucks.

It ought to be a slogan, Losing Sucks, no exclamation point because if you need one you don't get it. It's not that you are all charged up about losing, nor is it terribly emotional. It is a plain statement of fact.

You don't get to win everything. I get that. I show grace in defeat most of the time. But this is one i should have won.

Oh well. I lost. I'll deal with it.

On the upside, everyone there said i did a great job. Not that these things are judged on points. If they were my record would be a lot better. But like the Kennedy/Nixon debates it is not a matter of points, it's a matter of grabbing a random sampling of people and seeing what they thought. To quote Kent Brockman, "I've said it before, and I'll say it again: democracy just doesn't work." It didn't work last November, It didn't work in the primaries (Damn Huckabee), and it didn't work on Wednesday.

In the long run, none of this matters. I went home and slept in my own bed. The Earth still turns. Birds still sing. And Bruce Wayne is still stuck at the Dawn of Man (Damn Morrision). My minor triumphs and defeats hardly matter, not even to me. But losing still sucks.

Later

Bob