Pen-Elayne on the Web

On Holding One's Nose, Rather Than Cutting It Off

Very nice, angry bit from Kimberley Fox (link at sidebar) in response to a comment on another blog where the writer in question vows, "If you succeed in using dirty tricks to topple Dean, I will not be voting in 04, and I know a lot of other Democrats who will join me in sitting it out." Yeah, not voting, that'll show 'em. [August Pollak (link at sidebar) also basically tells the whiners on all sides to grow the eff up.] One of my biggest problems with Emma Goldman (not the one linked to at the sidebar) was her insistence that "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." On the other hand, according to all the fine bloggers reporting on the various Diebold ballot-tampering scandals, including Mark Crispin Miller who finally has a blog (link at sidebar under "Journalists"), maybe all the rigging and ballot tampering is our modern equivalent of making voting illegal... Incidentally, if you do a Google news search on Diebold, the first four entries are press releases touting the machines' accuracy, rather than actual news stories. Fortunately, people like Dave Johnson (link at sidebar) do keep track.