I would like to:

• abolish the Senate.
• abolish the office of Vice President.
• abolish the limit on the number of Representatives.
• Presidential election by popular vote.

Proportional representation all the fucking way.

I say things to my students such "You're all doing verry well", like Mr. Grace from Are You Being Served, and they just totally don't get it.

Hahahaha, I do this too. (Occasionally one of my UK coworkers will actually laugh. Younger Americans, nuh-uh.)

Ha! Mine is, "I'm free!" when someone asks me if I gave a minute out if I'm, you know, free.

Also, my inside joke person is mostly Debetesse. Joe is a very close second.

Note to Self:

Tom Scola is only a couple of bad days away from advocating government by dueling pistol.

Dueling pistols? Bah!

Thunderdome.

So the weirdest thing is happening to me. I am trying a home remedy of a turmeric paste applied to my ear to help a skin infection

I am now exuding turmeric. I thought I had just stained my hands from applying it, but now my armpits, toenails, bra and underwear are all yellow!

...are you sure it isn't jaundice?

Yes, because I can wash it off and it smells like turmeric!

ETA I also have a terrible turmeric taste in my mouth! I think it might be going down my eustachian tube?

The thing with voting for third parties is that it does not actually establish third parties. You don't change a rigged system by acting as though it is not rigged - especially if it is structural and not just rule-breaking. If "0" on the roulette wheel only pays the house,no betting strategy will change it. Changes to electoral politics come after successful issue organizing. They don't precede it. And they don't happen at the same time. I think a project manager might describe it as a dependency: successful campaigns appeal to organizations built around issues. The conventional politicians appeal to long established existing powers. If you want someone like Jill Stein, only successful, you need grassroots organizations that can organize successfully around stuff like single payer, and ending wars, and funding solar and wind power. Then a Jill Stein can ride the wave of those organizations and win. But Jill Stein can't contribute much to building those organization to begin with, or even to building the Green Party. Note that the Green Party is no bigger today than it was 12 years ago. Neither for the most part are the grass roots organizations I mentioned. But success of the grass roots organizations is a neccesary condition for decent politicians. And give that pre-condition, a third party might not be the only way to get those decent politicians.

Just to be clear, I don'ts say you end up with zero. There is Maxine Waters. And until he was restricted out there Kuchinich. And a few others. But politicians on the right side of most issues are damn rare - for good reason. If the grassroots around those issues are weak, then you won't get many politicans being elected who are on the right side of those issues - certainly not a President.

Tom Scola is only a couple of bad days away from advocating government by dueling pistol.

That didn't work out so well for Burr or Hamilton.