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I should have asked for a tracking number on my vote. You know, so I could log in and check on it from time to time and make sure it is ok and stuff. Maybe even play some games with it, like a Webkinz or something. We should really consider this for the next round of elections. I'm going to send a note to my local board of elections. Also, I can't believe we've still got a week of waiting to go.

And I would expect that many of those are probably more likely to just stay home than to actually vote McCain, since doing so doesn't really make a lot of sense for them from a policy standpoint. But what do I know?

Heh. In fairness, the mom in this story is an environmental scientist (and Catholic) who doesn't take the Old Testament literally, but she's having trouble knowing how to explain that to her kids who are just learning about this stuff and are being told in religious education classes to take it literally and she doesn't want to confuse the hell out of them. I wasn't really making fun of the whole thing so much as it was just a cute story. Kids really are pretty smart, though.

This has no bearing on anything, but over the weekend my nephew--who is dressing as a shark for Halloween--asked his mom if there were sharks on Noah's Ark. When he didn't get an acceptable answer from mom, he put forth his own theory that all but 2 sharks were put onto the Ark to die (along with every other species of marine life, presumably) and so the ark must have been considerably larger to hold all of them. Or else sea creatures were left unaffected by the flood, possibly because they are superior beings who had not fallen out of God's favor. All of this issued forth from the mind of

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Valium?

No kidding.

I voted early in Ohio on one of those touch-screen jobs. I'm sure I must have annoyed the poll-worker there by asking a lot of questions about the paper record and what happens in the event of a contested result--she was looking at me like a conspiracy theory wacko, but I was mostly just curious. I double-checked my vote about a bazillion times before submitting and I watched the paper record buzz by in the little window to make sure nothing went screwy when I submitted. I'm not especially paranoid, but its good to know that things are really working correctly. As for fears about electron

Growing pains. For a big game (and a loss), I actually came away feeling pretty ok about this one. Maybe I just expected it to be much worse, honestly, who knows? I was impressed with the defensive play (on both sides) all night. Pryor had trouble making reads beyond the first or second guy all night, but we knew that going in. Maybe Boeckman could have made some of those reads better, but if we're committing to Pryor, these are the kinds of games he needs to play in. Overall, he did ok--and looked most confident leading the team at the end of each half with time running out. I think

I voted! (can I be excused from this thread now? ) edit: just kidding, I'm still not going anywhere

I see what you're getting at and concede that it would be interesting to expand political influence beyond the current 2 major parties. Splintering them won't be all peaches and cream, though. Just imagine a heated four-party race that somebody will win and then vast majority of the population will bitch about "That asshole who won with 26% of the vote and governs like he has a mandate!" I'm joking....kind of.

I think Palin has set a rather disturbing precedent by hardly interacting with the media at all as a candidate. "OMG, bias!" has long been a rallying cry, but if you listen to the Palin defenders, the cornerstone of their entire defense of her seems to be a complete and utter paranoid distrust of any and all media.(aka: The Filter) They "distort things" with their "critical analysis". And the questions they ask are sometimes really, really hard! No fair! Say what you will about examples of media bias (it certainly goes both ways), but how can it possibly be a good thing for candidates t

I read this article earlier and thought of you, A-man. Like you, I'm hoping for "user error" here or maybe a glitch with a single machine or whatever. There are plenty of plausible explanations, but it is definitely...unsettling. Reminds me of that Simpsons clip recently--"This kind of thing doesn't happen in America! Maybe in Ohio, but not in America!!" Oy. My wife and I are voting early here in Ohio on Thursday. I don't know. There is a strange amount of tension in the air for a race that NBC/WSJ is currently projecting at 52/42% two weeks from election day.

Sometimes I long for my childhood days in Fake Virginia!

Heh. We'll be doing something like this this year.

Ditka vs. 100 Divine Obamas? Normal-sized Ditka or Tiny Ditka? Tiny Ditka. Tiny Ditka: 375 100 Divine Obamas: 2

Agreed. I'm totally okay with lampooning it. Its ridiculous and not at all relevant to the campaign, imo. There are plenty of reasons to vote for the guy and that particular one has never really crossed my mind.

That's it? Really? Jesse Jackson? And a Rolling Stone cover with a title that nods at Star Wars? I guess those of us who don't generally vote Republican are basically numb to the concept of certain people saying that certain politicians are divinely inspired. It is not uncommon. It is unusual for it to be said about somebody that I am actually voting for, though.

Well, at least I didn't vote in OH in '00 and '04, so yeah, screw those guys! '08 might be different. I'm not betting on an O victory yet...it will be a nailbiter.

Hey, that's not cool.

I say this completely without irony: They really sell this stuff?? No, really, I'm asking. Because I haven't seen it. But I also live in a cave. I'm as baffled as anybody as to why the messianic stuff would exist, godless secular-humanists that we are. I believe the "transformational" nature that has been referred to is that he doesn't present himself as a rigid my-way-or-f#ck-off partisan that we're all used to. In theory, he should be more capable of cross-party appeal than Hillary would have been, or certainly Palin (laughs), and this current version of hyper-partisan McCain. Geor

Thanks, but shhh! I didn't see myself categorized on that list and I prefer to fly under the radar like a ninja in the night....umm...who flies! And stuff.

For simplicity's sake, I'll take the front-page poll at Yahoo.com that is today showing the projected Electoral vote at 344-167. Were you expecting a shutout? There is a lot to be said for entrenched political stances. You can count on a roughly 40/40% split every time, with the rest fluctuating somewhere in between. "Should" Obama be winning by more? As far as I'm concerned, sure. Does the fact the GOP is only losing by less than 10 points show that the Democrats are out touch? You're going to have to show your math on that one because that logic doesn't make a lot of sense to me. FW