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Just got mine. I'm filling it out tonight. I get to vote to bring more pot revenue to my 'burb by switching our medical shops to retail.

Yeah, I just want to vote and be done. I wish election day was today. I am definitely feeling the fatigue, but for some reason I keep reading articles and watching the polls. Like some kind of addict.

What's crazy is how few bookstores stock any of these. I almost went through life thinking Ask the Dust was his only work until I stumbled upon a used copy of Brotherhood of the Grape.

The fact that you're even willing to try with Ulysses shows some serious tenacity. I think there's a pretty big difference between the language challenges presented by post Dubliners Joyce and Trainspotting. Joyce seems to endeavor to make his prose inscrutable and difficult to reach, where I feel like Welch is just initiating you enough to feel like a local. Much of the dialog can be figured out simply by reading it aloud in your best Scottish brogue, which will often force audible laughter. There's a small handbag of vocabulary that I imagine a UK resident would be familiar with, that you

I'm with you, that played so poorly. It was probably the first time where I laughed with Trump on something. And then I found the full excerpt from the transcript in question. She ACTUALLY was talking about Abe Lincoln. Amazing. In the end it's probably more important how something looks, than what it truly is in this game.

I disagree. I see how your thinking describes a large percentage of his base, but it doesn't describe every potential voter. It's easy to be disheartened by the aggression and blow-hard ignorance of the people at his rallies, but they're a minority. Trump won the primary with roughly 40% of the republican vote. That means that 60% of the republicans did not have him as their first choice and face a difficult decision. Sure, some decided immediately and no leaked tape will convince them otherwise, but even an ambivalent 10% of the base creates a landslide on a traditional election map with

I know, the breaking point always seems arbitrary.

This is the same question I was asking above. The ethics are just as rotten in all of these offenses, but I'm thinking (cynically) that the difference is those other groups are minorities and ones that bigoted white men are insulated from. Women aren't a minority, they're interwoven with everything and everyone that our society is. Also, as for the boys will be boys/ locker room excuse, I don't buy it. Even as a drunken lusty 17 year old man surrounded by the same, we may have described aspirations or crudely admired people's anatomy, but we NEVER joked about assaulting a woman with aggressi

Thanks for that. I was probably going to read it eventually anyway, but now I'll definitely read it sooner. I don't really click with the Selby Jr. recommendation above. He kind of cranks the cynicism and bleakness over the edge, beyond the charm of Fante. It may be pointlessly obvious choice but I think the appeal of Kerouac is similarly in that lost American guy tries to find his way. Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels or Subterraneans seem like decent companions to Fante. Thr main difference is he's more of a wounded romantic and the prose is not nearly as tight or economical. Another bo

He's had to make a statement that he's not dropping out. I like where this is going.

Now that was a moment. That almost made me tear up. Brasileros bring it so hard when it comes to live music. Side note: have you ever heard Los Hermanos? They're my favorite more recent Brazilian band.

There's a lot more talk about the latest Trump controversy being the deal breaker, which if true is interesting to me. His comments were shockingly disgusting, but there's something strange about the tipping point of opinion. Why these disgusting comments but not the others?

Winona Laduke, no googling. Scout's honor. It was my first vote and maybe why it came as news to me when someone mentioned Lieberman as Gore's vp pick earlier in the thread.

Reading this article, it seems less of an issue of one of his heinous opinions being dropped with great bravado, and more of one of his word salads where he doesn't even know where he's going to land. Somewhere in the slew of half-formed ideas he insulted veterans, and tried to not to insult the ones in the room because talking is hard dude.

So Mike Pence misappropriated federal funds by promising to take refugees, getting paid for it, then vehemently refusing to do so. Between that, Trump's sexist media rampage and the NY times story on his taxes, I'd say this is the worst week for the Trump campaign yet.

People of all political stripes get very upset at the suggestion. My anthropology professor in college deconstructed it over a one hour lecture. I was getting upset and couldn't figure out why (drastic world view reordering), I left with my mind blown.

It's funny. That's probably the 6th Irving I've read and the first I didn't really like. Maybe if it was my first taste of his work I'd like it more.

Yes, yes and yes. The biology of race (read: there is none) should be required learning in high school.

I've read Ask the Dust, and Brotherhood of the Grape. I loved both, yet I'm not sure what else he's written.

Dharma Bums Catcher in the Rye Unbearable Lightness of Being House of Leaves also Danny Champion of the World. I can't wait until my daughter is old enough so we can read it together.

If Random Name Generator doesn't inspire you to explore you can probably hang it up. That song feels like a single and a mission statement for the record to me.

Well, he was ahead in polls for FL, NV, and NC a week ago. Now he's behind in those swing states. I think there's a set of people who can live with a candidate who proposes racist policies but not with one who tweets about sex tapes.

Well... here's an olive branch: things usually get dicey when we talk about race. Even when extremely well-meaning people talk. But talk we must, with humility and a forgiving spirit. The entire goal of being PC is to communicate without verbally marginalizing someone. It's a good goal.

"Cyber is hard. Maybe even undoable." Donald J Trump

It shows how the internet has multiplied the number of people who dwell in a conspiracy-theorist news mindset. Since we can all find whatever info we want to support our worldview, the lackadaisical "connect the dots" style info-rage has become mainstream.