Why can't people just play by the rules?

My lit class got cancelled so I have an extra hour or so to read Oedipus Rex for my mythology class. I am going to go do that now. After these important messages:

Here are the polling graphs for the swing states. You can see quite a clear trend going on.

Please, go vote! If you live in one of the thirty states with early voting, go vote early. It may seem like Obama's destined to win, but there is massive voter suppression going on.  We need every single vote.  In this election, every vote is important - every vote might not get counted but every vote will count.

Because this is the kind of shit we have to contend with:

The oldest trick in the book: Phony board of elections flier tells Virginia Democrats to vote on November 5.

The Virginia Pilot reports today that a phony Virginia Board of Elections flier is being distributed in Hamption Roads, VA telling Democrats that they are now scheduled to vote on November 5. The flier falsely claims that "an emergency session of the General Assembly" adopted a new voting schedule to "ease the load" at polling places on election day.

The give-away? The Virginia State Board of Elections actually knows how to spell electoral.

source: think progress/The Virginian-Pilot

Seriously people, there's only one week left and this will most likely be the most important election of our lives.  Unless you're planning to move to the Himalayas and become a monk, which will be very a crowded place if McCain and the Evil Lizard Republitards steal this election.

Why isn't there a species of being whose entire purpose is to stare at the back of my eyelids?

Jacquelyn took this picture of Ethan at the corn maze over the weekend.  I futzed with it:



I futzed with myself as well:



A note on the weird: several items of Jacquelyn's clothes have vanished lately.  A hoodie, a shirt, and two pair of yoga pants.  I know some washers & dryers eat socks, but this is silly.