Election Day: Last Comments and Random Stuff

After almost two years of "debates," mudslinging, empty promises, half-truths, insults, Saturday Night Live appearances, vacuous (and endless) television ads, and aggravating robo-calls (19 of 20 calls on our answering machine yesterday were recorded political ads), it's almost over. This time tomorrow, either Senator Obama or Senator McCain will be figuring out how to redecorate the White House family quarters. Unless, of course, all those %&#$!@ lawyers both sides have hired decide to tie things up in bogus legalistic knots.

I'm ready for whatever. The bar is stocked, and I have several bottles of various headache remedies. I shouldn't feel this way, but I do. The polls open here in Virginia at 6:00 AM, just an hour from now. I'll be there, and wherever you live, you should be at the polls, too.

And that's enough about the election for today.

How about a few random things for a busy and historic day?

There's a very good article about blogging in Atlantic Monthly magazine this month. Andrew Sullivan's essay titled Why I Blog takes an interesting and wide-ranging look at why and how we blog, and why blogging "heralds a golden age for journalism." I feel better about all the time I spend on this blog.

The November issue of Playboy magazine (yes, I read it, but only for the pic ... uh ... articles) quotes the results of a survey of 30,000 men conducted by Cosmopolitan magazine which asked, "Which look on a woman gets you hot for her?" 67% chose "The Girl Next Door," 12% chose "The Wild Thing," another 12% chose "The Sex Bomb," and 9% opted for "The Ice Queen." It appears that a woman can optimize her chances of a date by dressing like the Wild Sex Bomb Next Door, and being standoffish. A separate statistic analyzes the hair color of the wives/companions of the world's 100 richest men: 62% were brunettes, 22% blondes, and 16% had black hair. None were redheads. Don't tell Agnes.

Just when you were finally coming to grips with Microsoft's Vista operating system, word comes that development is underway on "Windows 7" and "Windows Cloud" to replace it. Sigh.

Okay, that's enough for now. Time to get dressed, pack my lunch, my umbrella, and a few books (in case the lines are as long as predicted), and head for the polls. Make sure you do your duty today, too.

If you don't vote, I don't want to hear you grousing for the next four years about what you don't like.

Have a good day. More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo