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It's a long-agonized-over machine recount total delivered two minutes too late. But there's nothing ironic about it -- this is, after all, Florida's Broward County, which has been plagued with issues in its vote-counting efforts for years. Given that history, it was unsurprising -- but still galling to volunteers -- when the director of elections here revealed that the county had submitted its machine recount data two minutes after the state-mandated 3 p.m. Thursday deadline. The secretary of state's office did not accept the new numbers and so, after days of painstaking work, Broward's count Thursday remained the same as...

NOTE: I have not been a baseball fan for some time, although I was an absolute fanatic in my youth and part of my adulthood. I really rooted for the hapless Cubs, hoping they would finally break the jinx. It was not to be, once again. Diehard Cub fans, please don't be insulted by this. It is not meant to do that. Have a few brewskis and wait until next year. For years, I felt the pain of the Dodgers and Lakers. I know what it was like. MIDI - IT'S A HEARTACHE It is a heartache...Cubbie fans, a heartache...