The First Vote Meme

[cahwyguy]

Well, I was going to do a News ChumTM today. I was going to talk about how the announcement about Circuit City closing 155 stores seemed oddly juxtaposed against the article about the VCR going the way of the dodo. I was going to write about the 100-calorie Twinkie. I was going to write about the death of Yma SumacBut then I realized, tomorrow is

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[geah]

When I was 18, the polling place was at my house.

[cabarethaze]

Let's see, I had to do absentee on my first election through the US Embassy at Brussels. That was in 2000.

[cellio]

I am disappointed to learn that the Cheswick PA fire hall is not yet represented in Google street-view. (A street a block away is. So close!)

[tsgeisel]

I honestly don't remember the first time I voted. I can barely remember the last time I voted.

On the News Chum front, though, I looked through the list of Circuit City stores that were closing and saw "Palo Alto" and my first thought was "There's a Circuit City in Palo Alto?" Which pretty much says it all, right there.