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Since I broke my circadian at the birthday party, I've gotten into the very bad habit of lying in bed and listening to the tape I'm using for my alarm until it ends and /then/ getting up.
Perhaps I need to replace Brandenburg with something country and western.

I gave Nero his very first fiddle

I wondered today as I watched cars wrapped in American flags zooming down the street; how many of these drivers, their vision obscured by Old Glory, had participated in a ritual for which numberless Americans had died for them to have access to. How many of these newly-created patriots had voted last week? Odds are, about 36% of them, if my web searching abilities do not fail me. (Which is higher than I expected. For some reason, I have an average figure of about 25% on non-presidential elections stuck in my head.)
Oh well. I'll just fall back on 'if you don't vote you're not allowed to complain'.