The polling place was moved across the street, from a local church to the Public Safety building (combined police and fire station).

I was directed to the correct line for my precinct (there were two), got my ballot on two large Scantron sheets, which I had to fill out both sides (lots of issues to vote on.)

It took about half an hour at 8 AM. My wife just voted, and the line was shorter in late afternoon.

...but I especially prefer those with good booze and women with questionable morals and poor decision making skills!

From the submission (emphasis mine)...

You and I must have gone to the same high school. I remember cutting my teeth on a PDP 11/70. I also remember writing a Minesweeper game as a senior project, mostly because by that time I had gone through all the programming classes the school offered.

I also remember there were some college recruiters who looked at my source code and told me their school couldn't teach me any more than what I was already doing.

My God, I'm old......

Hot Grits!
What brand of crack are you smoking?
In Korea, only old people post lists of memes.
In Soviet Russia, memes list YOU!

So what's the price for the contents of my wallet file?

The real reason, I reckon, is that the US is internally antagonistic. *Everyone is screwing each other over.*

FTFY...and I was born and raised in the US.

Yes.

I think I see the problem. It looks like you're expecting rational, productive debate. I'm afraid that isn't possible in the United States any more. There's not much money in that.

Name-calling and other juvenile invective ensures more partisans stay tuned, which means the networks' ad rates go up.

+ 1...since I don't have any real mod points today.

You can do that...where you are, and where you can drive to the supermarket.

Try going to a neighborhood where there is a lot of subsidized housing, and try finding your raw ingredients anywhere you can walk to. Most supermarket chains have left impoverished areas, and the only place to get groceries are places like Dollar General or convenience stores. The selection of fruits and vegetables there is lacking, to put it mildly.

Written on a Post-It note stuck under the keyboard.

DUH!!!

I recall reading the original short story in middle school. It was in one of those "Weekly Reader" type magazines that apparently aren't around any more. Then again, I grew up in suburban Chicago, which is definitely different from the South.

As a sixth grader, I found the story interesting. When I read the novel as an adult, I was rather less impressed. I think that Card is much better with short stories than with novels.

If you don't mind, I'd like to use that line as my signature.

Why wouldn't you just set up a client rule to mark the message as read and automatically delete it? That way, there's no potential of backscatter and you're not bothered by spam or unwanted forwarding. As I understand it, most mail clients are able to automate this process.

This may not work for your particular application, and if this is the case you are free to disregard.