An Accountability Moment
Get your ass out there and vote. Find your polling place here. If you have any problems at the polls, there’s a good list of resources here. Don’t let long lines, campaign disinformation, or broken voting machines stand in the way between you and your right to vote.
Isn’t it sad to think that American elections have embarrassingly low voter turnout, yet we can’t even pull off our half-assed elections? I shudder to think what would happen on an election day in which every citizen actually gave a damn about the direction of their country. I fear that we won’t get the voting reforms we deserve until there’s a electoral disaster so monumental that it’s obvious to everyone.
Now that I’ve completely trashed our electoral process, turn off the computer and take advantage of your biannual opportunity to give the temporary residents of Washington D.C. the middle finger. After you’ve voted, there’s a treat for you in the extended entry. No clicking until after you’ve been to the polls.
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Thanks for the extended entry… made my day.
Comment by Ben — November 7, 2006 @ 1:27 pm
Ah, for the days when chest hair and midgets in robot suits were in vogue.
Comment by Joe — November 7, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
Okay, for those of us born after the 1970′s – what the hell was that?
Comment by Raznor — November 7, 2006 @ 5:54 pm
For those of you young-uns watching modern-era sci-fi, that was the original “Battlestar Galactica.”
No shit.
Comment by Mr Furious — November 7, 2006 @ 7:53 pm
Lots of hairy chests AND medallions, Don’t forget the medallions on heavy silver chains, it is what the hair is all about.
Battle Star Galactica? I thought that was Rowdy Yates in Rawhide, head ‘em up, move ‘em out, rawhiiiide.
Comment by rob payne — November 7, 2006 @ 10:30 pm
Good guess, Mr.F, but not quite. It’s from “Buck Rogers”, a show I never watched as a kid, but based on this clips seems like “Love Boat” in space.
Comment by greg — November 7, 2006 @ 10:51 pm
Was that the guy who played Face on “The A-Team” as Buck Rogers? It looked an awful lot like him, but I can’t tell if that’s because everybody looked pretty much the same in the late ’70s and early ’80s, with the exception of Billy Dee Williams.
Beedeebeedeebeedee. (Bootybootybooty.)
Comment by briantologist — November 8, 2006 @ 10:14 am