Neanderpundit

I’m going to ask, and I hope that I can find one person who will give me a straightforward, honest answer.

How will not voting fix anything?

Answers that will be immediately deleted:

“Those bastards all suck. I wouldn’t votre for him for (insert reason here)”
This is not an answer to the question and will not be tolerated.
“yeah, go vote Romney and see where that gets you, tool of the progressive right~!!!”
This is also not an answer, you don’t know who i”m voting for.
‘Ron paul!!!!”
Not an answer.

Here are some answers that are more on point:

“if nobody votes for Romney, Obama will be re elected and this will precipitate the revolution”
This is ignorant, but it is at least an honest answer that can be discussed.
“Aliens told me not to vote”
This is also at least an honest answer, though weird. Probably not weirder than the one above
“Voting is immoral”
This is asinine, but is at least honest, and can also be discussed.

The whole point of this is to help ME make MY decisions. the next question is, if there is some way (Which I cannot conceive) where not voting will somehow make things better, then what action DO we take? And if there is no foundation to the assumption that not voting will improve anything, as I suspect there is not, then what else should we be doing?

This is all I’d like to know.

Eli’s son and I are engagiing in an impromptu unofficial Poetry Slam.

Well, it’s not about winning but about playing, really, Eli’s son is the least confrontational and nicest tempered guy I know, if he does have a thing for colanders.

Anyway, here’s the first entry in the necxt round, a limerick involving tires. (or Tyres, if you’re FROM limerick)

A half bareassed ricer from Queens
riding 235/35 18’s
said “I don’t give a fuck
if it rides like a truck
but the speedbumps are tearing my jeans”

Beagle is the biggest baby on earth. A little thunder and he’s batshit crazy.

So I lay on the couch keeping him company, unable to sleep. Long as I was there, he slept like- well, a baby. Except i couldn’t. So now I’m headed into friday midday on a couple hours sleep, living on Vitamin C and caffeine.