Generation Q

[Urbane Guerrilla]

We have, Zen.

Those who can't believe Republicans ought to be President bitch, and the ones who care about the Republic in general chew on them for being beyond the pale. The pale of reason, most usually: there has been some flaky shit talked. Mostly, it's the left-of-center set failing to adapt to the reality that the electorate is turning away from them, percentage point by percentage point: the pendulum is swinging to the right.

I've worked election polling stations myself. The money's okay, though hardly an enormous hourly rate given the length of the day you put in, fifteen or sixteen hours total, with thirteen of that given to the actual balloting. And I've processed absentee ballots before -- the protocols to protect the Office of the Registrar's probity are pretty impressive. Never saw anybody draw little pictures, though write-ins could provide amusement: there were a few votes for Ah-nuld the Governator even a couple of elections before he won the Governorship in that improbable recall election. This term in office will be Schwarzenegger's last, due to term limits. Nothing much is being said about his future plans, but he's the sort to have them.