10 minute walk to the library.

0 minutes of wait time.

25 minutes spent on a paper ballot.  (60+ judges!)

10 minute walk home.

civic duty complete!

funniest names…?  doody and bopp.

who did i vote for?  no comment.

i am really not sure if this is funny or sad.

i have been keeping a lot of my political stuff of ye olde blog for some very good personal reasons, but this just struck me in a bizarre way.

let me start by saying that i know virtually nothing about this “probe” in alaska regarding sarah palin’s alleged involvement in firing someone…  i did/do know there was/is an investigation.

here’s the funny/sad part:

AP:  Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe

what? WHAT? WHAT??!!

since when is that a) a viable defense or b) ACTUAL NEWS?

and, for that matter, how can a person — who did not know what the bush doctrine of pre-emptive action meant/was — pre-empt ANYTHING?

funny or sad?

i am honoured and thrilled just to be considered…

Eric John Parucki for President?

i came across not only an interesting article, but an interesting website in total…

i am a sucker for anything hockey related and i have been thinking a lot about “hockey mom” analogies since the sarah palin anouncement.  clearly, i cannot think fast — or creative — enough as sean quinn seems to have done it for me:

Sarah Palin Is Not A Hockey Mom

then i started reading all the graphs and charts on either side of the article.

wow.

the stuff on the right hand side — pun intended? — is what i have been looking for — for a while.  consolidated/averaged out poll numbers on a per state basis.  all the major (and some minor!) poll data is there and then crunched up.  truly interesting stuff if you like numbers and percentages and stuff…  you know you do!