It has been a few days since the election and I don't want to let the disappointing results totally dominate my thoughts or moods. It is clear that the coming two years will bear close watching as Dubya and company push their extreme right-wing agenda. Let us hope that people find that they don't like what they see and respond to calls for something very different in 2004. I don't see much being offered by the Democrats as an alternative so maybe there will finally arise a new party to challenge the existing lumbering dinosaur parties in a significant way. Or perhaps the Dems will find a new voice which can lead us into a brighter future. I just hope that change occurs before the GOP puts out the lights on the whole world as they push harder and harder for war in order to line their own pockets.