Archive for November 5th, 2008
Cap’n Mal on elections
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I think a lot about my friends' perceptions of my somewhat-anti-voting and voting for "nobody" mentality. I don't talk about it much because, in all honesty, from what I've observed of their discussions amongst themselves, the extent of their understanding of political philosophy is "anti-Democrat = neocon Republican." So I ...
Almost vindicated
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008One of the main reasons I wrote that it's understandable to vote was to spread publicity about anti-establishment, anti-State candidates and thereby make a more specific, public statement of disapproval with the system (as opposed to the silent, inactive form of disapproval that is complete abstention). That's why I had ...
Zogby survey answers
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I receive Zogby surveys in my Hotmail inbox occasionally, and I participate in about half of them. I did one today, which was mostly but not entirely about yesterday's advance auction in stolen goods. I was particularly intrigued by three questions in it, which asked me to type in my ...
It can’t get any worse
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008I heard an Obama supporter say this today (paraphrasing because I couldn't quite hear everything, from across the room): "When we elected Dubya eight years ago, we thought he would be halfway decent, and he turned out to be terrible. ... Although, at this point in time, everybody's saying, 'It ...
Well, that didn’t last long
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Last night I wrote about the sick and depressed feeling that my unintentional, half-subconscious rooting for Barack Obama gave me; this feeling was very strong all day yesterday, from my trip to the polls to my viewing of Comedy Central's election coverage, because I found myself actually rooting for Obama ...