Actually, now that I think about it, all our political mail has been in favor of Obama.

We've been split. At the house in which only I actually live, my brother has gotten Obama mail and my father has gotten McCain. I have gotten bupkis. On the other hand, I'm a public school teacher who's lived in Boston and San Francisco -- maybe they figure I'm broke and not worth pursuing for money.

But I do read all the Republican things my father gets and I laugh and laugh and laugh. They keep sending these "surveys" which go along with requests for money -- "Do you feel that the states should have a fundamental right to define marriage? Do you feel that the current situation overseas calls for a strong military? Do you think it important that the achievements of the current administration be protected from the Democrats?"

I saw a McCain ad last night. In LA. It was SO WEIRD. I thought it was some sort of parody or something, but it was totally a McCain political hit job.

And i thought, "this is what the rest of the country is seeing." And it was SO SLIMY.

I had a meeting with someone this afternoon who is involved with voting rights stuff, and she was saying that she's helping out with a group coming over from China to check out election stuff. She said the original organizing group was going to bring them to Boston. She was like, WTF. Why would you go there? They were like, Um, it's close to New York? So she's bringing them to Ohio, where there will actually be election stuff going on!

Election observers. In the USA. The times are indeed out of joint.

Well, these people want to learn about doing elections.

At the 7-11 a few blocks away, they've got this "vote with your cup" thing for the Slurpees, where they have McCain, Obama, and Undecided cups, and buying a Slurpee in of the cups registers in the in-store poll. There was a huge stack of McCain cups left, and only two Obama cups.

I guess learning how NOT to do things is a good start.

Yeha, I would love to hear from someone with A cup boobies that are not seemingly 3D squishable how that goes...I might think by the time I'm mammogramable that they'd be more saggy and squishable, except I have to get mine at 35, because of the family history. So I'm really HOPING they're not saggy and more able to be put on a plate by then!

...and suddenly I realize we're having this convo in Natter. Um. Hi Natter!

In I-can't-help-it political news: Every time I see the slogan "Change we need" I can't help but read it in Yoda voice.

In not political news: I love Dirty Sexy Money. Scandal! Intrigue! Random plot point yachts! I never have any idea what's going on and I love it.

So I was bad and reading DMN's editorial blog again, and one of the board members posted a thing about Palin's Supreme Court decision question.

One of the commenters: Furthermore, we're not electing a Constitutional lawyer for president and veep.

My reply: I plan on voting for the former civil rights lawyer and constitutional law professor for president, myself.

I think the original board member COMMed me.