I voted today and I hope you do as well. I mean, I hate people. Generally despise other humans. I find them boring, stupid and often irritating. Therefore, if a solipsistic, anthrophobic misanthrope like me can vote so can you.
I do have one question for my election officials: Where’s my sticker? I was promised a sticker for voting. I have no sticker. I want my damn sticker.
It’s hard to believe that four years ago I was working as the movies editor for a now defunct website. On election night, the news team had planned to stay until the winner was announced so they could post it to the website. When I came in the next morning, they looked like zombies. They had taken turns sleeping on the floor, hoping for a definitive answer. At that point, we all knew that we didn’t have a final answer. However, my sunken-eyed comrades just looked at me and said, “We don’t know. I can’t believe we don’t know. Did you make coffee yet?”
I hope that we know tomorrow morning. God I hope we know tomorrow morning. I cannot take the juvenile fighting between the two parties again.
Still, take today and celebrate the diverse voices. We are a country of many people and yet we are a country of one people. In the words of a dead man (because no one listens to the living):
If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common basic link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. –John F. Kennedy
Or, in the words of another wise man, who happens to be living:
Moslem or Christian Mullah or Pope
Preacher or poet who was it wrote
Give any one species too much rope
And they'll fuck it up
--Roger Waters
Too late, The Republicans are already suing in PA about absentee votes. It has begun.
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