Here’s my (not terribly prescient) prediction for tomorrow’s midterm elections:
The GOP will most likely gain Senate control. They will then promptly assume that they weren’t elected because people are tired of Team Blue’s fuckups, but rather that they now have some sort of mandate to double down on stupid and harp on gay marriage and abortion. I feel comfortable predicting this because it’s what the Stupid Party has been doing every single time they got a workable majority in the last twenty years or so.
I’ll go vote, of course. As usual, I’ll be voting for the candidates that best reflect my personal political beliefs. And as usual, I’ll have to spend the next two years listening to people telling me that I “threw my vote away” or “helped the other guy get elected”, and other such nonsense. The only wasted vote is the one you cast not based on your conscience but on who has a better chance of winning. It’s an election, not a goddamn prom, even if it has all the external trappings of one. And even if your unprincipled windbag loses on account of my single vote, it won’t be my fault because I voted for someone else, it will be his or her fault because he or she failed attract my vote.
Anyway! It’s Monday, and I have a novel to continue and a novella to finish. Let’s not all get negative over who is going to be elected to carry the slop bucket for the next two years. I’m going to make some coffee and fire up Pandora, and get to work. That’s one thing in the world that is entirely in my control.
Want to feel like one voice screaming into the hurricane? Vote Libertarian in Texas…
And you can sing until
there’s no song left (song left)
And I can scream until
the world goes deaf (goes deaf)
For every other word
left unsaid you should
have took the time to
read the sign and
see what it meant
In some ways everybody
feels alone so if the
burden is mine then
I can carry my own
If joy really comes
in the morning time
then I’m gonna sit back
and wait until the
next sun rise….P.O.D.
Goodbye For Now
So, you think you can control Pandora .. and who now really controls your writing, you or your new editor…
What’s this I hear ?
A voice from Nashville, “heeee hahah fall into our
trap minion” 🙂
(Sigh. Edit BEFORE you post.)
Rnadomly, I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who can’t write without Pandora, or at least slows down badly.
Your Republican party nominally echoes my (ironically named) Liberal party (because they’re the Australian conservatives). I’m now going to be referring to them in future discussions as the Stupid Party. Thank you.
Ya know, I think they (the Republican Party) would have to climb a really tall ladder to reach the stupid plateau ….