Can you feel it in the air? That cold, blustery wind of politics. The skies overcast from the spew of spin-doctors. The putrid smell of bullshit polluting the atmosphere. Yes everyone, it's election time!

Several nations including the Czech Republic are caught up in a cacophony of campaigning candidates choking on community conundrums, calamities and congruent causes (I should be a Presidential speech writer, or an editor for Dr.Seuss).

However, there's one nation's political race and its Vaudevillian public antics which every conscientious voter, taxpayer, or dog owner pays attention to: New Zealand. In Wellington, a novelty pet-toy company is conducting a study of Kiwi voters for its winter sales line "Which [Kiwi] political leader would you like to see fed to the dogs?"

The conscientious public will also be following America's Presidential election. American transplants to Europe undoubtedly remember George W. Bush's blatant theft of the presidential election from Al Gore in 2000. It was painful to hail from the United States and witness the electoral process made a sham for all the world to see. Especially when the country you live in (i.e. the Czech Republic) is so lackadaisical about voting that voter turnout has plummeted from 96.3% in 1990 to 64.4% in 2006.

It's even worse when the country you live in has only held democratic elections since 1990: there's a sense  of setting an example as a citizen of a country that's supposed to be um, setting an example for the world. The shame of an openly stolen election — even for the barely politically-inclined — is a heavy burden to pretend not to care that you bear.

Either way, if you have the power to cast your berated vote in any election, anywhere, for anything ... use it, you bastards! People died and are dying for the right to participate in a farcical comedy such as the democratic process; play along and use your atheistic or perhaps God-given right (depending on your faith or lack there of) to have your choice be of public register and then completely ignored.*

Moving on.... what do you all think of our shiny new layout?
Cast your vote:
A) It's great! I love it! I want to take it home and be very intimate with it.
B) It's okay, but I liked the way the old one was hard to fold and made me feel inadequate.
C) It sucks. You suck. Everything sucks.**

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*(optimistically your vote will make a difference, yet if we don't use the voter muscle we've got it will atrophy and wither, and we're back to feudalism).
 ** If you answered C), may we suggest you join the STDs check-up group: Stuff That Doesn't Suck
 http://groups.google.com/group/stds-check-up

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