the daily snivel
Pins and needles
Given my utter lack of anything even remotely resembling a love life, sex life, or even a self-love life (who has time?), I've resorted to a creepy obsession with the 2004 Presidential Election in the United States.
Which, in case you didn't know, is being held today.
[What do you mean you didn't know? Get out there and vote!]
Without really being confident about anything, I'm calling the election for Kerry. There is simply too much scalding anger (bubbling over at a rolling boil) about the incompetence of the Bush administration for a second term to be in the cards. Bush's numbers have been terrible since the summer - he simply doesn't get more support than from 48% of those polled nationally. Those are horrible figures for an incumbent, since undecided voters traditionally vote to turf incumbents once they finally do head to the voting booths. And the vote turnout is expected to be record-setting today. Much of the country is motivated or change. I believe that they will no longer accept incompetence and dishonesty from their government.
Of course, I'm also wildly enthusiastic about Kerry's prospects for the simple reason that such warm optimism about him has ensured my psychological well-being for so long. I cannot say what I would do if George W. Bush won a second term tonight. I would probably dedicate my life to inventing a giant pair of shears that were collosal enough to physically sever Canada from the United States, because that country would truly have become a lost cause from environmental, economical, security, and social perspectives (political refugees from the Theocratic Republic of the God Emperor of America gladly accepted, of course). We have seen how loudly money talks in this administration, how eroded the division between church and state has become, and how little attention is paid to science and to dissent. It is an unhealthy state for a democracy - and more of an empire.
I don't know how I'll manage to sit through the next three hours of forensic science (normally a fascinating class) knowing that the polls will be closing and the results will be known during that time. At least, hopefully they will be known, barring the civil war, burning of cities, and onslaught of lawyers in another bitter recount battle.
Here's to democracy, gang.
Which, in case you didn't know, is being held today.
[What do you mean you didn't know? Get out there and vote!]
Without really being confident about anything, I'm calling the election for Kerry. There is simply too much scalding anger (bubbling over at a rolling boil) about the incompetence of the Bush administration for a second term to be in the cards. Bush's numbers have been terrible since the summer - he simply doesn't get more support than from 48% of those polled nationally. Those are horrible figures for an incumbent, since undecided voters traditionally vote to turf incumbents once they finally do head to the voting booths. And the vote turnout is expected to be record-setting today. Much of the country is motivated or change. I believe that they will no longer accept incompetence and dishonesty from their government.
Of course, I'm also wildly enthusiastic about Kerry's prospects for the simple reason that such warm optimism about him has ensured my psychological well-being for so long. I cannot say what I would do if George W. Bush won a second term tonight. I would probably dedicate my life to inventing a giant pair of shears that were collosal enough to physically sever Canada from the United States, because that country would truly have become a lost cause from environmental, economical, security, and social perspectives (political refugees from the Theocratic Republic of the God Emperor of America gladly accepted, of course). We have seen how loudly money talks in this administration, how eroded the division between church and state has become, and how little attention is paid to science and to dissent. It is an unhealthy state for a democracy - and more of an empire.
I don't know how I'll manage to sit through the next three hours of forensic science (normally a fascinating class) knowing that the polls will be closing and the results will be known during that time. At least, hopefully they will be known, barring the civil war, burning of cities, and onslaught of lawyers in another bitter recount battle.
Here's to democracy, gang.
