At Texas A&M, something is supposed to happen three times before it becomes a tradition. We also give our mascot a full military funeral, but that’s another story. Anyhow, this election season, it looks like the GOP plans to steal the election by purging voter rolls in swing states, thereby establishing a nice tradition (by A&M standards), seeing as 2004 and 2000 were stolen by computer fraud and the supreme court, respectively.

Tens of thousands of eligible voters in at least six swing states have been removed from the rolls or have been blocked from registering in ways that appear to violate federal law, according to a review of state records and Social Security data by The New York Times. (NYT)

The article goes on to claim that it’s nobody’s fault (cough-bullshit-cough-cough), not really one party or the other, but the fact remains that your vote may not count. The real point to take home is the flaws in the registration process – we can run a tax system (the IRS will find you if you live on the moon), a social security system and even a national census that dictates our congressional districts but somehow, we cant get our populace registered to vote.

The moral here is that your government would actually prefer you not vote, as it makes their jobs harder.

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.

The old rancher said, “Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.”

Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, “When you’re driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that’s a post turtle.”

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor’s face, so he continued to explain. “You know she didn’t get up there by herself, she doesn’t belong up there, she doesn’t know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.”

Thanks to my dad for this one.

Although I’m certain there are some cycnical bastards out there, Obama’s speech last night was the first thing I’ve heard from a public figure in a long time that lead me to believe we weren’t doomed as a country, a generation, a planet, etc.

Here’s hoping he’s the real deal and more so, that the Democrats don’t screw this up (soemthign they’ve really excelled at in recent years).

As gas approaches the same cost per gallon as Boone’s Finer Farms Strawberry Wine, it’s clear that things are not going well. Well, the hell with the politicos, I’ve figured out how to solve 90% of the countries problems – My Rage. That’s right, through a highly advanced (patent pending) piece of hardware (see fig 1a), my crack team of researchers has figured out how to transfer my anger directly into the drive-train of my Subaru.

Initial tests indicate that having people cut into my lane without signaling yielded only marginal results. However, we found that the rage-to-torque meter was pegged when they replayed George Bush’s presidential speeches on a loop. While the results are good there is a concern that listening to the president talk that much could make unwary drivers profoundly dumber. However seeing as the American public elected the guy twice, its hard to see how this could really have any large-scale negative effect (you can also get even better results by hooking Keith Olberman up to the device, but that’s logistically difficult).

Expect to see our revolutionary RoadRage(tm) hit the streets in December of 2012, just before the end of the world predicted by the Mayan calendar.