Voting

I love voting; it's one of the few simple, easy to exercise inalienable rights that I feel fulfilled in
doing as much as people tell me I should. But I hate voting for small local elections, where your choices are between the unbelievably entrenched incumbent familiar face, and the upstart rebel without a cause. In Massachusetts this is almost always the case: you've got Ted Kennedy, or the old townie crank from Hull (where the fuck is Hull? I've lived in Massachusetts over twenty years and I've got no idea where Hull is) who's running not on any platform, or for any particular purpose, but merely running against Ted Kennedy, merely because he's Ted Kennedy, a famous famous with an old name.