Howdy again,

This is weird to me, but I've just been informed that in light of recent
events in the Cheese world, my editorial staff has decided to take
a break. They're leaving me to my own devices, my strange designs,
and going on hiatus.

I'm not sure how this will work, frankly, but I think that in their absence
I should be able to take some liberties, with such banalities as ending
a sentence with a prepostion behind. Or maybe just have a sentence
beginning and ending with prepositions! With!!!!

That's just whatever, of course.

Today is Veterans Day, and I'm outta coffee.

That too is just whatever.

We had a ballot measure here recently, having to do with increasing
access for all our citizens to procure prescription medicine. Something
about the state buying our meds in bulk. I don't know quite what meds,
though surely I'm hoping that our thc is included in the bulk.

Here's the thing though. This measure was wholly unopposed at. It's good
for the people, everyone agreed. But...BUT!!! So how was it then
that almost 23% of the voters voted Nay? I mean, the measure
passed mightily, but still. These are the same voters that voted
against a necessary constitutional amendment restricting campaign
contributions (we need to amend the constitution here in order to
enact contribution limitations...we're prohibited from just doing it) but voted
for the measure actually imposing limitations. See, that second part
is completely moot...can't be done...b/c the people voted against
the very change allowing those limitations to be imposed with.

i'm not sure what to thinK.

Except to say that mostly, voting scares me, even among the so called
informed. I will say that I'm with Doob on the notion of voting
for better choices, be they parties like the Greens or just individuals
who aren't influenced by the machine so much. Aren't quite part
of the machine imposed on us in the guise of choice-in-democracy. Like that
great Rage vid where they blend W/Gore's faces and remind us of all
the exactitudes among their political utterances.

Anyway, I just thought I'd mention it. I do hope that y'all had some fun
in your electoral processes, pompously self- aggrandized as those
processes might be.

Peace,
PT
makin the freeway safe for the freeway