Votin' Day

For what it's worth, I cast my ballot about a couple of hours ago. Since Herman Munster is way ahead of Dubya in this state - anywhere from 9 to 15 points ahead depending upon which of the recent polls you believe - I was blessedly free to cast a third party presidential vote for Mr. Peroutka. After that a couple votes for some good guys, a couple votes for some not-so-good guys, but who at least aren't the other guys, a couple votes for some relative unknowns but who seem from endorsements and expressed positions at least a little better than the other relative unknowns. And a few damfinos which were left blank. Here in North Disneyland we get to vote for a raft of propositions, too. Some good stuff, some bad stuff, and a large selection of "Say, what?" If I can't figure it out - and I am, Lord knows, a simple soul - I vote to keep things as they are until somebody trustworthy 'splains it to me.

There are some easily applied principles that make voting for (or against) propositions easy. There is the Never Vote For A Bond Issue maxim. This simplifies large sections of the ballot and it only has two exceptions. The first I haven't seen in a while. In this state we used to issue bonds to fund a program of loans that enabled veterans to buy homes. This was a self-funding sort of scheme that worked very well. Since they were loans, the bonds were funded by the payments the home-buyers made. The second exception is bonds for water projects. This southern section of Alta California is a semi-desert. Without huge and expensive water projects this little corner of the world dries up and everything blows away. (Or they could restrict immigration, development and expansion. Yes. You laugh and how right you are.)

Had the race in this state been a skosh tighter I would have voted for George. He won't actually do anything for us, i.e., the Old Right, the Evangelicals, the home schoolers, the traditional and conservative Catholics, the unborn babies, but at least he won't sic the cops on us, a point made rather bluntly here by Charles de Nunzio.