I like #3 and #4.

My roommate laughed at me this week for saying that sunglasses made me look like an asshole and that polo shirts made me look like a lesbian. Both are true.

i read your comment over at que sarah brown about how votes don't count. yeah. listen, can i have your vote if you aren't using it?

i came here for the jew-bashing. i'm so disappointed.

i live in california. since 1990 a democrat has won every election for president, governor and senate, with the exception of governors pete wilson and arnold schwarzenegger. people should go out and vote if they feel strongly about indian casinos -- there are like three propositions about them -- but voting for president is a big stupid waste of time.

sarah, check back here for something special on the anniversary of kristallnacht.

i used to feel quite charged up about voting but i don't really anymore. i vote with an overseas ballot, though, so i feel like even when i do get all enthused and vote, my vote will probably be tossed anyway.

democrats were holding sway in california for a good decade there, but it was republicans before that for ten years (okay, yes, and democrats in the 10 years before that, but i only BARELY remember the whole fruit fly thing). it's a moodswing state. things could change. go vote kerry for me, just in case, mmkay?

anyway. i don't think you've lost the funny by far. timely and provacative are but exactly the words i would use to describe this. i was smiling about the "rough beast slouching towards wendy's" for a good bit of time. i wanted to say something about a widening gyre but i don't think i could top you, so just know that silence often = admiration.

i think even in the '80s norcal was largely democratic. all the republicans -- i.e., white people -- were in socal. california really is like two different states. the only thing the two halves have in common is all those mexicans.

i was at the haight on sat. and it was nothing but roustabouts, derelicts and unwashed long-hairs. i got directions from a nice lesbian couple in a volvo, though.

and you're right, expats shouldn't bother to vote. those bumbling asians/europeans/australians will just lose your mail.

Kristallnacht? isn't that, like, when Jews smash glasses with their feet? Part of the wedding ceremony, right?

on voting:

If I lived in a swing state, I'd be all fired up, but down here in Bush Country it will truly be a waste of time. I'll go do my thing, though, and vote for the guy who appears to be the least harmful. Woo hoo! So exciting.

yeah, but sarah, think about it -- even if you lived in ohio, what's the probability that your one measly little vote will have a direct bearing on the outcome of who wins your crappy state of ohio? what are the odds that it's a dead heat and your vote breaks the tie?

presidential elections are like professional wrestling. the media do a horrible job of covering them because all they care about is the horserace.

i like kerry, though, because he looks sort of like abraham lincoln.

He DOES. He's got that super duper long chin and those sort of weird basset hound eyes. Each candidate is extremely homely in his own way.

I lived in Ohio once. Not that you care.