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Saturday, November 11, 2006
School for Fraud
2 comments:
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Anonymous said...
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I see your point. But I am glad the slug is gone. When we rebuild he will not be missed.
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11/12/06, 5:11 AM
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Anonymous said...
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Listen to how a dickweed cloistered academic puts it: David Kimball, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, said party-line voting tends to be more convenient for voters and yields more residual votes in races located farther down on the ballot -- which typically receive less attention and publicity.
It is astonishing that he doesn’t seem concerned that those “residual” votes are extremely likely to be cast by people who have no real idea what they are voting on/for – and more of this is a good thing?
Since people are forever coming up with interesting ways to tweak and munge the voting process, I might suggest that a new answer be added to every candidate race in the land. That answer is “[ ] None of these assholes are acceptable”. Another interesting modification would be, for every vote on whether to make a new law to fix an old broken law, the option “[ ] Let’s just abolish the old, broken law” is required to be a choice. Just imagine the ways such tweaks might be made to work, and what effect they might have. Of course, since these options are intended to serve the people, and not the powers that be, they’ll never, ever come to pass. But it’s interesting to imagine… -
11/12/06, 7:20 PM
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