If this election ends up going on for weeks, I'm going to feel really stupid for having stayed up all night tonight to see the result. But I'm superstitious about going to bed with a critical situation on the line, ever since I slept through the Phillies' collapse in Game 4 of the 1993 World Series.
But I need sleep.
So let me keep myself awake by quoting some stuff Michael Totten wrote on Instapundit today:
If George W. Bush wins the election, the world will still spin on its axis. Canada will not grant you asylum. If John Kerry wins the election, America will still be America. Australia will not grant you asylum.I'd add, in what may be the final hours of the 2004 campaign, that if you've promised to leave the country if this election doesn't go your way, please keep your promise. Let me enjoy Bush's hypercapitalist theocracy, Kerry's surrender to al Qaeda and the European Union, or whatever your favorite Chicken Little fantasy is, in peace. Posted by digamma at November 3, 2004 01:54 AM | TrackBackPeople who vote for the other guy aren’t stupid, brainwashed, or evil. They are your friends and family. Someone you love will almost certainly cancel your vote.
If, by some chance, everyone you know votes for the loser it won’t mean the election was stolen. It will only show that you live in a bubble.
ne komprenas la sarkasmon. Neniam dum mia vivo mi estis tiel kontenta, tiel trankvila, tiel plena de bena paco, kiel hierau, kiam mi eksciis, ke Mikel-Angelo ne vivas plu. Ni eltiris ci tiun sciigon el nia gvidisto. Li kondukis nin tra mejloj da pentrajoj kaj skulptajoj en la vastaj koridoroj de Vatikano, tra mejloj da pentrajoj kaj skulptajoj en dudek aliaj palacoj; li montris al ni la grandan pentrajon de la Siksta Kapelo kaj freskojn, kiuj suficus por freskigi la tutan cielon, -- preskau cio estis farita de Mikel-Angelo. Ni decidis uzi kontrau li rimedon, per kiu ni venkis jam multajn gvidistojn -- malsago kaj idiotaj demandoj. Ci tiuj kreitajoj nenion suspektas -- ili tute ne komprenas la sarkasmon.
Posted by: elephant at January 10, 2005 06:20 AM