Rock and Roll for President

a big political debate broke out in the Sonic Youth newsgroup for some reason about the election and all...i was making it a point to not get involved as it is *extremely* off-topic...but this one guy just said the dumbest fucking thing about the electoral college...here is my respnose:

i was making a point to not get involved, but this is just too stupid...

> It gives the analogy to a world series: you don't decide the winner of
> the series by the number of total points of 7 games, you decide it by
> who wins the 7 games. Just because a team has one really good day
> doesn't mean it is the better team.

1. you're comparing STATES to BASEBALL GAMES! there's NO validity to
this analogy at ALL! States are geographical location, baseball games
are EVENTS! a state is NOT an event! they're not even close to
analogous!

> Similarly, a candidate should be
> elected on his nation-wide support, not just because they can make a
> really good appeal to a large number of voters.

2. ummm...how the hell does a candidate NOT have a nation-wide support
if he actually has the plurality of the actual votes of actual
citizens!? what you said makes no fucking sense in the slightest...
-robert

that's all for now...

now for the reg'ler entry

i got a 98 on the in-class portion of my calculus exam from yesterday...woohoo! that averages the take home part (which was 1/4 of the grade and a measly 79) to a 93.25...woohoo! i got my paycheck today and it was back down to $11/hr...that sucks...oh well...i really think that's all that's been going on now...oh aside from Jamie, David, and i have the plans for a movie in effect (more or less...well, less) it's called Dogs and Hamsters Having a Garbage Picnic...the title is very suggestive of the subject matter...so i'll just leave it at that for now and mention more later as i feel like it...i'd like to end w/ a bit from Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own" that i rather enjoyed (having read the story earlier today...)

The old woman was not impressed with the phrase. "I told you you could hang around and work for food," she said, "if you don't mind sleeping in that car yonder."
"Why listen, lady," he said with a grin of delight, "the monks of old slept in their coffins!"
"They wasn't as advanced as we are," the old woman said.

i have the fucking *hiccups*!

and i've gotta write una composición for my spanish class for tomorrow...several pages...did i mention that i HATE the hiccups?