During the last presidential election I was very concerned that Gore might possibly lose and spent the entire night glued to the television, flipping between networks as the drama played out, finally drifting off to bed in the wee hours. The subsequent mess that was the last election had me obsessively calling up salon.com while I was at work and debating and speculating endlessly with my office mate.

Long story short, I’m not going to play that game this time, it’s just too much for me. I grabbed a copy of the recent Nova documentary ‘Origins’ about the history of the earth from formation of the solar system on, and I am again going to spend an election night glued to the television, but this time it’s all about perspective folks, and how ultimately meaningless this stuff is in the grand scheme of things. Or so I’m trying to convince myself anyway. I’ve also been trying to remind myself that this country survived the evils of McCarthyism and the ridiculous era of Prohibition – surely we can if we must survive another 4 years of the mental midget.

So. That’s about all I’m going to say about this year’s election. Of course I hope desperately that Kerry wins and encourage anyone reading this to get off their ass tomorrow and go vote. Beyond that, I’m trying really hard to let it go.