A Demon's Nest of Sentiments

Sometimes on Sunday, Brooke McEldowney, the author/artist of the comic Pibgorn, posts a political screed. I've agreed with most of what he's posted, plus I like his comic.

If the individual vote were invested with any actual value, any potency, it would be yea or nay. That is, nobody might be elected until the emergence of a candidate whose ethics and intelligence exceed those of a tapeworm. This option, to withhold one's vote (imagine a federal election in which all candidates wound up with a vote of no confidence), would give the electorate real control over government, and possibly lead the citizenry to become choosy before squandering their voting privileges.

However, the vote, having no such puissance, is one of the several ways the constitution recognizes that all legislative processes would grind to a dull halt if the government were required to exclude imbeciles.

http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2013/08/10

One thing that I love about some political systems is the vote of no confidence. There are many things broken about the American electoral system, and I think the absence of such is one of them. There's far too much money, dishonesty, and secrecy in our election process.


Pibgorn just began doing a series re-creating Romeo and Juliet with the core characters, he did Midsummer Night's Dream a while back and it was quite interesting. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this series turns out.

Ice Cream

You may be fortunate enough to have an actual dairy/creamery in your area. If so, I'm thoroughly jealous. We're stuck with Walmart.

My wife and I were perusing the ice creams recently and out of idle curiosity, we looked at the ingredients for Breyers. In the past it's been heavy cream, sugar, chocolate or whatever. Very simple and always easily pronounced ingredients. Well, they now have a line that on the front says Frozen Dairy Dessert instead of just Ice Cream, for example, their Rocky Road. These particular ones do not have the nice and simple list of ingredients that I came to love Breyers for.

So just keep an eye out when you're shopping if you care about this. As far as I can see, Ben & Jerry's is still keeping it simple.

What's sad is that around here there's a regional brand called Blue Bunny, and a lot of people think it's just the best. And it sucks. Food tastes over here are sometimes really weird.