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"'Twas Halloween and the ghosts were out,
 And everywhere they'd go, they shout,
 And though I covered my eyes I knew,
 They'd go away.

"But fear's the only thing I saw,
 And three days later 'twas clear to all,
 That nothing is as scary as election day."

-- Norah Jones, from "My Dear Country" (Not Too Late, Blue Note Records, 2007); written before the 2004 US election

( Norah Jones, on what's scary around Hallowe'en )

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I'm not sure whether this is accurate, not being all that skilled a mind reader, but it does jibe with my own observations and impressions, and is a similar but slightly less mysterious explanation for those impressions than the explanation I'd been using ...

". . . it's not that McCain was once a decent politician in 2000 and is a bad politician now, it's that McCain isn't a politician of ANY kind, and never really has been. He's not running for president to get his agenda instituted or pass some laws. He's not even running because he wants to be in charge. He's running because he wants to be better than daddy and grandpa, and he thinks he DESERVES IT, the SAME DAMN REASONS as Dumbya ran." -- batman1016, 2008-10-25

In other news, I'm doing a bit better than two days ago, but it still hurts to move. In a little while I'll try to decide whether how I'm feeling is close enough to 'able' that I can get the rest of the way there with enough pain meds, and if so, I'll try to time the meds so as to get me to rehearsal. If not, I'll just take enough to make lying down not hurt too distractingly badly, and read about how JavaScript interacts with cookies until I can fall asleep. (Right now, having had a routine dose of pain meds a couple hours ago, I'm at the point where walking doesn't hurt too badly after the first step except for occasional twinges, but taking the first step hurts enough to produce an involuntary gasp or grunt even if I was already standing up.) I'm considering showing up with just recorders, if I think I can handle getting there but not carrying the double bass.

( An explanation of John McCain. And ouch. )

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