Hec outlines the penalty for a "wrong" vote, in Natter. and there are also lots of people with different priorities who are making different choices based on the best information they have.

Well their priorities are wrong and they should feel bad. They should wake up the day after they voted, and think, "What the fuck was I thinking? I don't hate women. Why did I do that? Jesus, I suck." And then they should feel queasy all day and have a restless sleep for two weeks, getting haggard and red-eyed. And when they try to tell their friends that they were sorry they should face scorn! "Too fucking late now, man! Too fucking late." And they should not be invited to parties and sit alone at home trying to play Halo but nobody wants to play with them. Because of the shunning and the scorn.

Deena in Bitches:

Quick funny before I go to bed. We were talking about the election over dinner, and we had this conversation: Kara: I don't want Mitt Romney to win because he won't let me have children.
Me: Why wouldn't Mitt Romney let you have children?
Kara: I heard it on his ads. He's going to end planned parenthood!
Me: um....I do not think this means what you think this means...explain, explain, explain
Kara: Oooooh. I still don't like Mitt Romney.

tommyrot: Someone on Kos suggested he's being petty--he wants to delay Obama's victory speech until 3 AM or something.

Matt the Bruins fan: Yeah, not gonna work too well since Obama's not the one who can't drink caffeine.

Hec: hope Obama enters like James Brown.

Billytea:I hope he enters like Omar.

msbelle, in Natter:

Cabinet positions are like Broadway leading roles, sure every so often one of them can go to someone who has put in the years and no one knows, but most of the time they go to NAMES AND FACES and 80s/90s has beens.

ita ! in Natter:

Yeah. I don't see why states are that important, but y'all do, so it's fine. I can wait until us immigrants take over and don't understand your history. I estimate...a decade, if we knuckle down and toss out the contraceptives.

From the board number discussion in natter:

Dana: I'm number 6.

Jessica: I am not a number, I am a free - oh wait, I'm number 20.

Allyson sets up but Billytea delivers...race, in Natter.

I don't think I need Andrew Ti to help me with this one:

Coworker: I had a really bad morning. There was a truck blocking me in my driveway for a half an hour! It was one of those guys picking through the trash for cans.

Me: Did he at least apologize?

Coworker: Well he was black.

Billytea: So I was running for President, right, because duh, I have the best hair, and my opponent just ran these relentless negative ads that made me look like a heartless plutocratic ideologue who's out to oppress women, Latinos and the poor and middle class. Mostly by quoting me."

"Did he at least apologize?"

"Well he was black."

Discussing the twin pillars of all human society in Natter:

Connie Neil: The grape and the pig--where would civilization be without them?

-t -: Doing fine with beer and goat, I bet.

Discussing the complexities of programming grammar in Tech:

ita !: I'm being shocked in the other direction by someone on IO9 who's trying to tell me that fixing your code so that it says 1 second instead of 1 seconds during a countdown is introducing dangerous levels of complexity and that the change is too expensive.

Jessica: If {timeleft} ==1 then {word after timeleft} = "second"; else {word after timeleft} = "seconds"

....or am I missing something?

(Caveat: Not a professional programmer! Entirely possible I've introduced something dangerously complex here! Read at your own risk!)

ita !: I'd answer your question, Jessica, but it seems you've crashed the internet with your cavalier use of conditional plurals.

I'd like you to go to your room and think about what you've done.

There's a lesson here for all of us.

Jessica: I...I'm sorry. This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?

ita !: One nice things.