I have forgotten how amazing 1984. I think the last time I read it was around 1984 so I'm enjoying it so much this time around. Orwell's use of language is phenom. I have forgotten how amazing 1984. I think the last time I read it was around 1984 so I'm enjoying it so much this time around. Orwell's use of language is phenom.

I love 1984. I remember actually jumping up from my chair in shock the first time I read a certain scene.

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meara what if there were a pro-gay, antichoice republican? (Seems to difficult to conceptualize)?

I think the weird thing is that I am getting way more conservative in my old age. I trust government less, but still more than corporate america. I am way more anti-abortion than I have ever been given my experience but also way more pro-choice. I care about pro-gay more than I care about most issues, but how a candidate considers and thinks about education and pay equity matters more. Maybe most. I'm pro-immigration reform, just not in the way most people would think and I'm definitely pro-tax reform, but again, not in the way most candidates think.

I'm also pro-grammar. Any candidate who uses the subjunctive correctly rises in my esteem.

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Yikes! I need to get off my ass and find a pink or burgundy knee length crinoline. Any suggestions for sources that don't charge an arm and a leg for non-white underskirts? And are smooth and comfy to the legs?

You want the Malco Modes #582 "soft chiffon" petticoat. One on eBay in burgundy: [link]

Or there's Amazon, which has it in pink: [link]

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I don't think there is any argument against abortion rights that is not, at its root, anti-woman. So in that sense, I am a single issue voter because that single issue illuminates so many others.

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So I was talking to my little brother on the way home, and he told me the most amazing story.

He was in line to vote on Tuesday, and the woman behind him asked what to do. He said, "Well, pretty much like last time, they didn't change anything." And she said that she'd never voted before and didn't know what to do.

White woman, mid-50s.

So he tells her to go check if she's registered (she didn't even know if she was), and she was. Then she looks at the ballot, doesn't know what to do, he tells her to draw a line in the arrow for who she picks to vote for. Then he asks, "So who you going to vote for? Romney or Obama?"

She says, "Who are they?"

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My little brother: he found a unicorn! An honest-to-god low-information voter, in (of all places) San Jose. I can't believe it.

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How in the world did she know to turn up at the poll if she hadn't watched TV, read a newspaper, or talked to anyone in the past year?

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I am way more anti-abortion than I have ever been given my experience but also way more pro-choice.

I think that's where I am, too, and I have never heard anyone else say it. Obviously our personal histories are different, but what you said exactly. And the pro-choice side is always going to get my vote anyway.

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I wonder why she decided to vote this time. Must have been a proposition or local measure, huh?

My parents worked at a polling station like they usually do, and the remarkable thing this time was that there was only one incident with a belligerent person (usually there are several). Lots of people who needed provisional ballots for one reason or another, or were at the wrong place, one woman who was not, in turned out, registered to vote, but they were all good-humored about it. The one "problem" person was mad because they had posted the precinct numbers on the wall behind the tables where you check in, instead of taping them to the front of the table. She apparently harangued them for a while about it. That's not how they do things there.

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I support any candidate who is for the free coinage of silver and bimetalism.

We have some of those in Utah, and a few of them try to pay their bills in gold. Oddly enough, most retailers refuse to make change.

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One of my students asked whether I was anti-abortion or pro-choice and I actually snapped and said, "Every person I know is anti-abortion. No one thinks, 'Abortions are awesome! One for everyone!'" Then I went on to say that abortion is probably the most horrible choice any person can make, but it is their choice to make it. I think it probably offended the kid and shut her up. I've never liked the dichotomy that the right has set up.

Please to explain to me why 80% of my waking life is folding laundry? It's my big friday event. I put the kids to bed and watch TV and fold laundry. My life is fucking pathetic.

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