where did those pieces of text come from?

It looks like they're crowdsourced.

I really want to read a story where the E.T. fragment came from. And the other one was beautiful.

Oh ita, it's like they are trying to gaslight you.

That reminds me I need to write up my cheat sheet of judges to vote no on.

I did that on Friday. Along with puzzling out what is up with that proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution.

ita !, I just have no words. It is hard to know which would be more frustrating, the pain or the hospital abuse.

I keep checking fivethirtyeight repeatedly through the day to lower the anxiety. I am having a get together tomorrow night and have champagne planned. May my state do the right thing and make it an early night.

Along with puzzling out what is up with that proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution.

I can't remember what the amendment was but I remember thinking I planned to vote no.

I keep checking fivethirtyeight repeatedly through the day to lower the anxiety.

Oh man, me too. For every news story about how the election is "too close to call," I just mutter "Maybe in the popular vote, but not the electoral college," and re-check fivethirtyeight and the Princeton Election Consortium: [link]

It's because all of our schools are polling places and there is a security risk with unvetted adults traipsing through schools when kids are present.

I don't get this. I have voted in many schools (and had the school I went to be a polling place!). You put the polls in an area that has a direct route to the outside, and put someone to guard the internal door.

Unfortunately, our school does not have an area like this. At all. You have to go through hallways no matter where we put the voting area.

IME, schools are only closed on election day if it's a presidential election year. Midterm elections don't have a high enough turnout for security to be a real concern.

We're closed for midterms, too. And primaries. And any time there is an election. For closed=kids not at school, teachers in an inservice.

We need to have those inservice days anyway. They're not extra days, so I figure they're just killing 2 birds with one stone.

Along with puzzling out what is up with that proposed amendment to the Illinois Constitution.

If that's the one about requiring a 3/5 vote on pensions, please vote no.

Oh, right. Yes, definitely no.

If that's the one about requiring a 3/5 vote on pensions, please vote no.

That's the one, and I was planning to vote OH HELL NO.