Election Day.
A prayer for Election Day:
God save us from capable people running for offices, but rather grant us incompetence and venality, for they are much to be preferred over cunning and tyranny. Please bring Your Kingdom most swiftly, for the governments of men, well, with all due respect, they suck out loud. Amen.
It would figure that I didn't get the word from Heinlen (via Handsome) soon enough to do some good. If you don't want to vote FOR someone, at least vote AGAINST someone.
Damn!!
I live in NY. Our competent and effective (shudder) State AG, Eliot Spitzer, is running for governor, because, well, he's competent and effective, and as governor he can do way more damage. He's endorsing a party half-wit to fill the post he's vacating, and Demonicrat party members the Clintons are tossing their 'good word' in that hat too. Meanwhile, the Moneygrublicans have a competent and effective (shudder) candidate applying for the job of State AG, and he will lose.
So, I guess, for once, the system worked? Kinda? Maybe we'll get lucky and Spitzer will be absolutely worthless as a governor. A guy can dream, can't he?
I did not update my voter registration for this election, and will not be voting. It was my version of protesting the general worthlessness of all the candidates in all the parties. So, I've missed my chance to vote against someone.
Best-case scenario in NY: we keep our governor, and get a new Dem SAG. Incompetence and venality FTW!!
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Remind me to smack you the next time I see you...;)
Are you retarded?
Wait. Let me rephrase that.
Are you retarded?
Sorry. I tried to think of a better way to say it, but I couldn't.
Abstaining from elections is straight up idiocy. I thought that point had been made for all thinking beings in the election of 2000. I don't care what your reasons are, they aren't good enough. If you can vote, you vote. That's the fax, Jax.
As to getting the word from Heinlein too late, if you'd READ the goddam Heinlein, you wouldn't need to wait for me to rephrase him, and, you know, you'd have more pleasure in your life, too. But I don't know. You seem to be pretty much anti-pleasure, so maybe that explains it.
One more thing: you don't need word verification enabled if you've asked people not to post links to this blog. The spammers can't find it if it's not in any search engines. My new blog doesn't have word verification set up, and so far it's been fine. I'd recommend you keep the feature turned off until you find you need it. It will encourage comments.
Of course, after comments like this, you may not want to do that, either.
My self-chastening has, I hope, been duly augmented. The mistake shall not be repeated, I assure you all.
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