Big blue dot in a bright red state

[redplum]

Our ballot-measure education-pamphlet thingies arrived in the mail a couple of days ago and I've been working through mine and making notes cause that's the kind of geek I am. The paid "Arguments in Favor" for Measure 43, our parental-notification law, were predictably intense and full of unintentionally hilarious signatures like "Uninformed Parent

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[docmanhattan]

Oh, man... that is classic. Anyone who sneaks an elaborate Python reference into official voter information, under the guise of another Python reference, deserves a medal of some kind.

It'll be only a few years before you see him running as K. Phillips-Bong (Portland, Slightly-Silly Party.)

[redplum]

Isn't he great? He places several "in favor of" arguments in the election pamphlet every year, at $500 a pop. He really does deserve his own musical number.

[docmanhattan]

So all you need is residence and $500? We should take up a collection.