A No Punctuation Wednesday on Election Tuesday

well hi again
foolery here
making friends
and very likely enemies
but all in the name of Capital P Patriotism
right
am I right

I must be right because you look wrong and I am not wrong
GAHHHHH knows I am not wrong
and I have voted
crow crow crow
and you look as if you maybe did not vote
because I dont see you broadcasting your choice on Facebook or Twitter which is where one does that
apparently
damn all those wrong people to Hell
as long as all of you know that I am right and now
wait a minute
what do you mean its over this early
holy cow the polls just closed on the west coast
WOO HOO
or
BOO HOO
according to which side you are on
which maybe is the problem
because I dont know which side Im on
I thought it was the side that favored civility and courtesy
circumspectitudinousness
the ability to be wrong without making everyone else pay and the ability to be right without being boorish
thats the side I thought I was on
thats the side I want to be on
because I know I basically flipped a coin to be part of the In Crowd

and it seems to me that we start the same way every four years
several good men and yes sometimes women who employ hundreds of people to scour lots of closets looking for skeletons and when they find some theyre all
Oh my heavens well we cant have that now can we who would have guessed
and if they find none they declare the candidate a robot or worse

and then its time for
THE ISSUES
and we all read up on
THE ISSUES
and we talk about
THE ISSUES
and we complain about how no one is talking about
THE ISSUES
and then when someone finally gets down to business talking about
THE ISSUES
on Meet the Press or The News Hour or Thom Hartmann or similar
we are all watching So You Think You Can Dance Like a Fifth Grade Pawn Star
and talking about Fantasy Football

and we devote so much time to deriding the candidates oh how bitterly we excoriate the two left standing
for their religion
for their wealth
for their wives
for too much business experience
for not enough business experience
for what their fathers did or didnt do
for their pronunciations their laughs their jeans their genes their alma maters their turnons and turnoffs their

well you get the picture

and meanwhile what are we doing where are we going who are we talking to and about what
Snooki and Paris Hilton ceded ground to Honey Boo Boo and some weird guy from Korea and most of you know exactly who I mean but we
collectively
have the gall to sneer at the intellects of the candidates
REALLY

I voted
I really did
although it was halfassed and soulless and I had to try to remember which one I picked because really
neither one has much of a chance at much progress when we are all so invested in proving them wrong
so it doesn't matter that I voted for Mitt Romney even though I voted for Obama last time and wasnt surprised or upset that he won tonight
nor was I surprised that all of you were at each others throats acting like asshats on the internet
preening and strutting
shaking fists and moving to Canada
why the hell Canada would want any of us obnoxious entitled selfimportant babies is beyond me
all that matters is that my TV consumption gets back to normal

Comments

[Debbie]

Exactly. I did the same. Obama then Romney.

Agree. I want my TV shows back!

xoxoxox

[GRAMPS]

Think you nailed it!!!!

This whole election season was "God awful". I was embarrassed by both sides. And now that it is over, I am frightened that we haven't learned anything

[Cactus Petunia]

Yeah!

[Chesapeake Bay Woman]

I swear the words to that Korean song is Condom Style. Take a listen. Condom Style.

Well done, punctuation or no.

[Bob Cleveland]

incidentally i never learnt to shift for myself

[Bob Cleveland]

or perhaps i should have said !

[Bob Cleveland]

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[daryl]

you voted for Mittens? Hurrumphfh ....

if just once Mittens or that guy he ran with would have actually put forth even one solid FACTUAL thing they planned to do on DAY ONE i might have voted for them ...

love your punctuationless post ..

[Mantel Man]

Ha! I don't know who the Korean guy is.

But I'll bet he doesn't have enough business experience.

[Pierre Lafrance]

Damn right. Canada already has its full quota of idiots, thank you. The recent elections in Québec proves it.

[Darcy]

Jack Kerouac's got nothin' on you Ms. Foolery. Lovin' the SPOT ON stream of consciousness, and FEELIN' IT SISTER. xoxox