November 4, 2008. Election Day, USA.

If the candidate of your choice doesn’t win, feel free to blame the voting-machine goblins… they are obviously biased toward the other candidate.

Alternatively, you could read Writer Dad’s brilliant election poem, in which he likens America to the Roman Empire… distracted by bread and circuses while the Empire’s leadership rots from within.

FYI, the order is randomly chosen.

Overly pessimistic?  Probably.  I do know that I am tired of voting not for the best candidate, but for the candidate least likely to finish packing this nation into its hell-bound handbasket.

The festivities continue over at Wikipedia’s Main Page Discussion, where many Wikipedians are using the double-header “Today’s featured articles” as an excuse to point out how elitist, anti-British, conceited, stuck-up, and generally self-righteous Americans are.  This happens basically any time more than two elements of the Main Page relate to a single United States topic.  Interesting, isn’t it, how a person’s accusations reveal more about the accuser than the accused?  As though today’s election isn’t all over the BBC anyway…

(Man, I hope it is, because if it isn’t, I’m gonna look the fool.)

The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate, it’s the sand of the Colosseum. — Gracchus