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The Advantages of Absentee Ballots

This is part of a two-part series evaluating absentee ballots, which are being used more and more often. The first part will focus on their advantages. The second part will focus on their disadvantages.

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Absentee ballots are increasingly being used throughout the United States. They are especially popular in the West Coast; elections are entirely absentee-ballot in Oregon and Washington, for instance.

More below.

Be Careful What You Wish For…

About an hour after the vote which defeats the proposed Authorisation for Use of Military Force in response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria we will probably begin to realise that the world as we know it has been irrevocably changed; and probably not for the better.

The inevitable decline of American power precipitated by the disastrous Bush administration will enter its terminal phase as the American public withdraws into an insular shell of isolationism and denial of collective responsibility in spite of having enjoyed for decades the relative security and prosperity that engaged American power has provided.

The performance of the American Left since 21 August has been an utter embarrassment; exposing the vaunted activist Internet as little more than a breeding place for fatuous conspiracy theories, misdirection, unreasonable and stubborn scepticism, selfishness, wilful ignorance and misplaced moral outrage. A complete and utter shambles. Shameful.

Courageous activists and diplomats campaigned for decades to implement the hard-won provisions of an almost unanimous prohibition of chemical weapons only to have it thoughtlessly repudiated with the ridiculous argument that ‘people are just as dead’ by other means. Or compared incessantly, in ignorance of what nerve agents are capable of or intended to do, to the use of white phosphorous at Fallujah. All in support of a knee-jerk response to a proposed military action in the face of a truly inhumane war crime.

The Daily F Bomb, Friday 9/6/13

Interrogatories

Looking at today’s weird holidays…

Have you ever met a lazy mom?

When do you plan to fight procrastination? How do you intend to go about it?

What book are you reading now? Have any books defeated you lately?

When was the last time you stayed up past your bedtime? Was it worth it?

The Twitter Emitter

The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 9/5/13

Interrogatories

Do you have a good sense of direction? What if you are in a strange city?

Do you chew gum? What is your favorite kind? Can you chew it and walk at the same time? Have you ever left it on the bed post overnight? Did you ever swallow your gum?

Have you made a will? If not, why?

How many tools do you have? Do you know how to use them?

The Twitter Emitter

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