View From the Bushes

I have a few minutes here during my lunch hour before I have to go to physical therapy again, so I thought I would try and dash off the blog before I had to leave. Slate had an interesting article on the futility of voting in the presidential election, which, rather than talking me out of voting, increased my resolve to always vote for a third party. Like the article says, the chances of one vote actually deciding the presidential election are so remote as to be incomprehensible, so rather than looking at my vote as a chance to determine who gets to be president, I look at my vote as a way to influence the ideology of whomever does end up as president.

Speaking of which, the first debate is tonight. The biggest pre-debate story is the number of rules the candidates agreed on, ranging from the temperature of the room to the height of the podiums. One of the big rules was that there could be no cut-away shots showing how the other person was reacting. Fortunately, it appears that the networks are planning on ignoring that particular rule. Overall, I'm unimpressed. Tonight's joint press-conference is a long way from the famous debates of Lincoln and Douglas.

As far as DireKobold goes, at the moment I'm working on some behind the scenes stuff, beefing up the generation system, tweaking the website, etc. So there won't be a huge amount of new content for the next couple of weeks, although I'll probably throw another Xenogenic NPC up at some point in the next few days. One thing I need to work on is the ultimatum my wife has given me to clean-up the mountain of books, paper and Dr. Pepper cans I call an office, my own version of the Aegean Stables.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
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