Oct 08 2008
PSA – it’s two syllables, noo-cleer. two syllables.
so i've been hearing this or some variation of it a lot lately: i don't like obama or mccain, so i'm not voting for either of them. it bugs the crap out of me, and yes i realize some of the two of you who read this are included, so don't get pissed off, that's not the point. the point is, i don't understand how not voting is a good solution. i say this having not voted in the last election, i'll admit it. i was undecided down to the wire, i thought they both sucked and i didn't feel like finding the time in my day at the moment. i can tell you at this moment that a) i'm certainly not proud of the fact, and b) if there were some sort of do-over i would definitely vote. moving on to the point that i'm sure i had. neither candidate is perfect, no candidate in the history of candidacies has ever been perfect, nor will one ever be. if i ever find myself to be completely in agreement with someone like that there would be two things to do, one, make sure i'm not in some sort of mental institution already, and two, retrace my steps to locate when i drank that strange kool-aid and who gave it to me. like it or not, it will always come down to the ugly task of choosing the lesser of two evils. Continue reading "PSA – it’s two syllables, noo-cleer. two syllables."