What I find amusing about our local public referendum: the money spent by some of those trying to stop the minimum wage hike vote from coming out YES, claiming that the answer will increase their expenses to the point where it bankrupts their businesses -- is well into seven digits, which really should have increased their expenses to the point where it bankrupted their businesses.

Go figure.

Locally, it's all about the state legislature. Christie has the kind of poll lead where the only way he loses is if we move the counting to Florida, so the question is whether it's still going to be a split government: Democrat legislature, Republican executive, which is at least supposed to force some degree of mutual listening. In theory. And not one which operates on the national level.

Going to vote in about ten minutes. And for the record, I am casting YES on the minimum wage hike. Because I am aware that it will in fact cascade a degree of inflation across the board and that increased salary won't buy anything at all --

-- but I'm also aware that inflation was coming anyway, under whatever other excuse could come into existence. If it's inevitable, might as well at least have the very temporary delusion of an improved paycheck.

Two hours of being falsely happy. That's worth voting for, right?