Brian's quite remarkable blog of wonder.

Text is hard to draw. And it never comes out looking exactly right. I could just do it in Photoshop and use a font, but to me that always looks even more wrong for some reason.

Anyway, to explain: right now the citizens of Iowa City are preparing to vote on a referendum to investigate forming an independent city-run energy utility to replace the current service provided by MidAmerican Energy Inc. It's been a hotly-debated issue, with the "vote yes" crowd claiming that communities with municipal power usually pay less for it; and with the "vote no" crowd claiming that starting something like this from scratch requires a lot of capital, and MidAmerican already does a pretty good job anyway, so if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Truthfully, I'm still not entirely sure which side I want to sympathize with. But I came up with a pretty funny cartoon for the "yes" side, so there we go. Also, MidAmerican, to combat the possibility of losing customers due to the democratic process, has unleashed a blitzkrieg of letters to the editor, newspaper ads and yard signs to attempt to influence the peoples' decisions, and I'm getting a little annoyed with all of it.