Tomorrow is election day. At least it is for the thousands of people who have not voted early. We are two of those who have. Visited the courthouse last Wednesday. We passed three people coming out when we arrived, and four people going in when we left. Not sure what our numbers were but we were probably closed to numbers 1999 and 2000.
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We like early voting. No lying about being out of town. There were times when you had to have an excuse, such as being out of town on election day, to vote absentee. I was always tempted to vote absentee and then on election day drive outside the city limits and then come back in, thus fulfilling the statement that I would be out of town that day. The language never says the WHOLE day.
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The first Christmas catalogues arrived before Halloween. One of them has, among other things, t-shirts with humorous messages on them—at least humorous to some.
One of the t-shirts says, “If YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook merged, you would have Youtwitface.”
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Originalist thinking by some judges interpreting the Constitution seems to overlook a lot of things that have happened since 1791. Upholding the purity of the Second Amendment is seen by some as allowing the use of large-capacity magazines in today’s weapons. But the authors of the Bill of Rights lived in a time when guns fired only one bullet at a time and required several seconds to reload, prime, cock, aim, and fire again.
Where’s the National Musket Association when we need it?
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Inflation was portrayed during the recent campaign as an issue caused by one person and that can be cured by one party. If it was that simple, we wouldn’t have inflation.
Or climate change (for those who believe in it). Or a drug problem. Or a crime problem.
And for those who preach simple solutions—I have this rash…….
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Once again, we gave away no treats for Halloween. We went to a movie instead. It’s a matter of self-preservation. We don’t want to be caught with all that chocolate left over.
We saw the latest Julia Roberts-George Clooney movie. George was George. Julia was Julia. The popcorn was pretty good, too.
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We noticed a sign of what the movie theatre business is becoming. The ticket booths were closed. We bought our tickets at the concession stand. -0-
Had a doctor’s appointment earlier that day. The nurse was dressed up as Lilo, as in Lilo and Stitch (a Disney animated sci-fi movie of a decade ago). Given what nurses deal with, we thought she should have been dressed as Stitch.
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With the end of the elections, the first round of legislative chaos is about to begin. The offices of those defeated or who were term limited are now available for surviving incumbents to scramble to get. For the next few weeks the Capitol will look like a big used furniture emporium with furniture stacked in the hallways waiting to go to its new offices.
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Will the Missouri Tigers go bowling this year? Sure. The Columbia Mall has several lanes available.