Big Day

No, I'm not talking about Halloween, though that is starting to be a big day again since Felix can probably enjoy it and, as such, we can start to enjoy it again too. No, what I mean is next Tuesday. Voting Day. Liberation Day. What have you. I do have one VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE to impart to anyone who reads this blog (if anyone still does):

If you are still honestly UNDECIDED (i.e. not just saying that to avoid talking about your true feelings/leanings), you should go to work on Tuesday and work really hard and all day and then go home and go jogging or do some yoga or maybe go shooting at the gun club, whatever. But DON'T VOTE. If you can't make up your mind until you enter the voting booth, you SHOULD NOT VOTE. And I'm not just being snippy or snotty or snooty. For the good of everyone, for Democracy itself, and to be a good patriot, do whatever you can do to avoid VOTING POORLY. Voting poorly means just casting votes willy nilly without really knowing what or who you are voting for. You don't get behind the wheel of a car (hopefully!) unless you really know how to drive, so don't get behind a ballot without knowing what you are doing. Your negligence, like unskillfully driving a car, can hurt people.

And honestly, if you've made it this far without figuring out who you like better or despise least, you really aren't equipped to cast a vote. You do not get a learner's permit, you do not get to retake the test if you screw it up (not for four years, at least, and then its usually too little too late).

So, everyone who knows who to vote for, go vote. Everyone who is that mysterious demographic that has been loved by both campaigns for the past 3 months, stay home.

Hello.

I am not dead.