More reasons to vote from Good magazine:
188. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”—Abraham Lincoln
784. You voted for prom queen at your school. Ditto season two of American Idol.
789. Your vote is just as important as that of a self-righteous Hollywood A-lister or an impassioned AM radio blowhard.
927. A new law prohibits reporters from reporting on soldiers’ injuries unless they have their signed written permission in advance. (edited to add - WTF?)
1131. Despite what cable news networks love to tell us, there’s no such thing as one Mark Penn-anointed, microsliced-and-diced demographic segment that decides who becomes president. There’s just you.
1132. More Americans have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than did in the Revolutionary War.
For those of you looking for a break from politics, I'm afraid this won't be a good place for you to visit for the next few days. Tomorrow my personal Blog the Vote post will go up and Saturday morning the master list of Blog the Vote links (with representative quotes) from all participating bloggers will go live. That list will be updated through election day and I imagine on the 5th we will all be too tired to do much more than watch mindless tv and marvel at the fact that finally - FINALLY - election season is over.
Expect literary posts to return on late Wednesday with reviews of more short stories from The Del Rey Book of Fantasy and Science Fiction and a look at a lot of interesting sounding upcoming titles. Not to mention a ton of commentary on several books I'm reading right now. All books all the time (okay, most of the time) returns next week.
Read about Blog the Vote here and if you have any questions, let me know (colleenatchasingraydotcom).
And finally - I'd love to know what this little boy was thinking at this moment. His life was changed, you can tell. It's just so cool to see a face like that; it's the best part of democracy; a child who realizes right then at that moment that yes - he can be whoever and whatever he chooses to be.
That's America in October 2008.
