2012 Voting-Booth Russian Roulette

In the last election I voted for Obama, not because I believed in him, but because I put my faith in the youth who supported him. He let us both down. I vowed never to vote again. Then Rebecca Solnit changed my mind. So I'll vote, okay? Now stop nagging me.

• Should we pass a law requiring English-only signs to use correct English, even if the pendejo holding the sign is ignorant? Note the samples posted here.

Did mayor spell his name right?

• Come election day, I have to decide between the lesser of two evils: Obama for four more years OR Romney for four to eight. You do the math.

• Someone said they were less worried Iran might eventually have the atom bomb than they were Romney could have it two and a half months from now. Count the days and practice duck-n-cover, just in case.

At least this promises bilingualism.

• In Colorado we might pass a referendum legalizing marijuana. That would at least make it easier to survive political ads of 2016. Cast your vote for sanity.

• Why do so many people call my house asking how I'll vote? The election is a secret ballot. I tell that to pollsters and doorknockers, and they act like I'm spewing rocket science at them.

Illiteracy is bliss

• How come there's nothing on the ballot about Arizona? Like making complicity with its anti-brown gov't a federal hate-crime?

• I've been flying around Aztlán for a month. Why is it a federal crime to joke about airport security? What's not to joke about? I propose a federal referendum making it mandatory to joke about airport security. Best joke wins a free ticket to a land free of sheep and home of the not-so-paranoid. It would add mirth to the wasted time, the personal violation and anxiety. Is there a second to my motion?

No spelling bee, either

• If the Demos and Repubs really wanted to win the latino vote, they would compete in habanero-eating contests and crossing-the-Arizona-desert-by-night marathons. Only survivors could take office.

Guess that makes it offical

• How snugly does George Orwell's 1984 shoe fit us now? Start with the words of CIA Director William Casey: "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." (1981)

To refresh our memories: "Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian and satirical novel set in Oceania, where society is tyrannized by The Party and its totalitarian ideology. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as thoughtcrimes.

But it comes in two spellings

Their tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of a supposed greater good. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth, which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line." Tally up your own count.

Y ya con la mierda política en la tele,

RudyG