Tag: voting

  • Exorcising the franchise

    07 May 2007 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    No that’s not a typo, but a clever pun. I’m just back from voting in my very local mayoral and ward council election. After a brief phone meeting that required my attention at 5 PM, I walked over the municipal center of Riverdale, Maryland to exercise my franchise. I’ve been reading while I walk more…

  • What happened to the romance of voting?

    08 Nov 2006 » 1 min read

    I got to my polling place at 7:15 PM and there was a long line. It took 45 minutes to get through the line, and I cast my ballot just before 8 PM, when the polls close.

  • Why some people don’t vote

    07 Nov 2006 » 1 min read

    Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) discusses why he doesn’t vote on his blog and does so in what I think is a witty and amusing way. I always vote, but I appreciate what he is saying and also I think he’s just very funny. Check it out.

  • Late night

    07 Nov 2006 » 1 min read

    It went like this: I had TiVo’d the movie Prime on HBO several days ago and sat down to watch it this evening. That ended just in time for me to watch Heroes. A few minutes into the show, however, Norm called to talk about plans for this weekend. Fortunately, the show is on a…

  • At the polls…a decade ago

    06 Nov 2006 » 1 min read

    Midterm elections are just around the corner. And that means that ten years ago was a presidential election, the second one in which I ever voted and the first time I went to the actual polls to vote, rather than vote by absentee ballot. According to my diary entry for November 5, 1996: I voted…

  • Primary Election Day 2006

    13 Sep 2006 » 2 min read

    By the time I got home from work, I had convinced myself not to vote. For one thing, I haven’t been following local politics lately. It bores me to death. For another, I don’t know what is going on with the Democratic party. The Republicans are what everyone expects Republicans to be, have moved in…