January 31, 2008

• Often times I will spend an hour, or possibly more, planning and writing a post.  On this one, due to the fact of my blogging dalliance recently, I will limit myself to ten minutes. 

  In real life (Fact train check: blogging is not real life. Everyone on board? Great!), I am claustraphobic, although I only know that by chance, because such tight situations rarely arise (Some irony there: small situations have a small probability).  One did occur two Fridays ago, when I was in the backseat of an extremely tight car, at night, wearing several heavy layers, with the heat blasting, and raucous hardcore music playing.  I felt like my mental existence was being squeezed by a fist the size of my body and that I was about to either explode or pass out.  This post somewhat feels like a computerized version of that; I suppose I am experiencing a self-induced attack of blogging claustraphobia.  Metaphorically, it’s like having writer’s block and putting a gun at your own head and telling yourself to write something. 

  Here is one thing that I believe is the most certain thing I know about presidential elections at the present moment: that presidential bumper stickers should have expiration dates. 

  I still consistently see Kerry/Edwards and Bush/Cheney bumper stickers from the ’04 election several times a week.  There are several reasons why this is not okay, and that they should have expiration dates.

  1. We should generally encourage the virtue of people moving on with their lives.  Time moves on, and things change, and I think that as a society we should encourage this.  Who knows, perhaps people look at those presidential bumper stickers and start thinking about past relationships, dead pets, and lost football games.

  2. It confuses people who figure out who’s running in the election by looking at bumper stickers.  Not everyone gets the daily paper.  Some people just look at names on signs and such, and so we can’t have people going to the booth expecting to vote for Kerry; lots of problems could arise with this, which for sake of time I can’t go into here.

  In conclusion, after a certain date, say a year after the election, a car with a presidential bumper sticker still on it is liable to be pulled over by the police and the driver ticketed.  Besides, no one has ever changed their mind because of a bumper sticker anyways. (Which is something I’ve been meaning to make into a bumper sticker, so people will realize it and change their minds ).  

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