It's Election Day! · 1:14pm Nov 6th, 2018

Remember, today is the day when you get to help determine the direction of our country. If you're reading this, and you can't vote by reason of age or not being an American citizen, I ask that you try to remind everyone you know who can vote about the importance of today. If you don't think you can get to the polls on time by reason of living too far away, or not having access to a car, I suggest looking into getting a Lyft or an Uber. They're offering free or reduced prices on trips to the polls in certain areas. In some states, it's still not too late to send in votes by mail. I promise you, if you really want to vote, you can find a way to do so. As for those who simply can't be bothered, I'd like to show you a poem I've always liked...

Election Day is a Holiday

"People on whom I do not bother to dote
Are people who do not bother to vote.
Heaven forbid that they should ever be exempt
From contumely, obloquy and various kinds of contempt.
Some of them like Toscanini and some like Rudy Vallee,
But all of them take about as much interest in their right to ballot as their right to ballet.
They haven’t voted since the heyday of Miss Russell (Lillian)
And excuse themselves by saying What’s the difference of one vote in fifty million?
They have such refined and delicate palates
That they can discover no one worthy of their ballots,
And then when someone terrible gets elected
They say, There, that’s just what I expected!
And they go around for four years spouting discontented criticisms
And contented witticisms,
And then when somebody to oppose the man they oppose gets nominated
They say Oh golly golly he’s the kind of man I’ve always abominated,
And they have discovered that if you don’t take time out to go to the polls
You can manage very nicely to get through thirty-six holes.
Oh let us cover these clever people very conspicuously with loathing,
For they are un-citizens in citizens’ clothing.
They attempt to justify their negligence
On the grounds that no candidate appeals to people of their intelligence,
But I am quite sure that if Abraham Lincoln (Rep.) ran against Thomas Jefferson (Dem.)
Neither man would be appealing enough to squeeze a vote out of them."