We are facing a very real crisis. A crisis of content. Given my great track record of the El Predicto, it is time to put on the fez once again.

Here is the thing - with the impending US election not only coming but, with any luck, being actually conclusive the people of Pajamastan, the entire cosmological blogosphere, will have nothing to talk about. We have felt it here in Ontario, folks, the end of the run of elections which saw a provincial, municipal and federal one each between September 2003 and June. Then...nothing to talk about. Even in this corner of the world, by shifting, beer to the beer blog (#2 on Google this morning, thanks very much), the Willsonian retorts on zymergic consumerisms have fallen way back. And, as portland points out, what to do without baseball? Here are some suggestions, ways you can cope with the coming crisis:

• Go play the election pool. I know I thought it would close after the debates but you people look like hell, you need this. And even if Florida by some fluke, by some whim of the gods, learns to count...I promise you, bretheren, that can't or, at least, I won't. I can guarantee that there will be a court challenge or, at a minimum, a room full of lay judges poring over the mail-in ballots. You did get your mail-in ballots, didn't you? We are talking way past 20 January 2005 if you play your cards right.
• One word: Jetsicles. You know what you need to do.
• With the end of baseball, the hockey lock-out and football only on the weekend, we need to fil the void. In response, we are reviewing the revivial of brother Iain's Big Ball leagues of the early 1980s where reports on the big ball game were manufactured with fictious box scores, standings and top scorers being listed daily. Please supply the name of your big ball team so that we can organize the league.
• Knitting. In the wake of the inevitable night of the long knives that will follow the US election, it is most likely that many bloggers will just quit amid the sea of accusations and the unhappy unfair unwise and unwanted outcome of the will of the people of the biggest free-est democratliest nation in the world. The writers and readers need to move to the next hot bed of bloggetry and that is knitting. Go see. Google blogs about knitting. Post there. Ask questions. Form into vague camps based on sime arbitrary distinction and drive those poor ladies nuts. Soon it will be time for the US mid-terms so you can stop and every thing will get back to normal - but this will get you through.

So those are my ideas. I am sure that given the very reasonable likelihood that half of the US population and, therefore 89% of Pajamastan, will be unhappy with the election of President Kerry next week and the shift of the Congress to the Vermont Liberation Party, we may not need to actually rely on them all to get through the impending winter of discontent. Shall we pray?