ficbyzee has put together a community called 52letters. Members commit to writing a letter to a politician once a week, about whatever issue they feel passionately about. Here is ficbyzee's post on the subject, and here is the first post in the community ( Read more... )

I'm sorry if this is adding to a slew of election-related posts on your friendslists. Whenever you get irked by people linking or saying the same thing, though, you should just think of me, with my 480-person friendslist, which I refuse to filter. Then you should laugh and laugh and laugh. Schadenfreude makes any irritating friendslist problem ( Read more... )

Those of you who are voting in the American election tomorrow have no doubt seen more on that subject than you should be expected to bear. I am not going to tell you who to vote for, and I assume that you have already been inundated with encouragement to vote ( Read more... )