When I left for vacation what feels like nine months (but apparently was just a week) ago, I did not expect a Democratic governor to blatantly sell a U.S. senate seat on eBay. I didn't not expect Congress to let our biggest industry collapse and ensure that our entire economic landscape will devolve into a Quest for Fire-like distopia before the start of the new year. I did not expect our president to be attacked on television with foot ware.

But one thing I did expect was that something — anything! — might happen in race, between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, for Minnesota's open senate seat.

But, sadly, no…

Of the 2.9 million votes already recounted, Coleman leads Franken by fewer than 200. But the AP's analysis of the 3,500 challenges found that nearly 300 wouldn't benefit either man because the voter clearly favored a third-party candidate or skipped the race.

The AP also found that of the 3,500 challenged ballots that easily could be assigned, Franken netted 200 more votes than Coleman. But Coleman has withdrawn significantly fewer ballot challenges than Franken – that is, the pool of challenges that can now be awarded to Franken is larger, and both campaigns announced Sunday that blah blah blah blah blah…

They're still fucking counting those ballots? They still haven't decided what to do with the same goddamned unclear ballots?

Seriously, I feel like I read this exact same story two weeks ago. Are we in some kind of weird reality feedback loop?