Gettin’ Out the Vote

I spoke to the Former SweetieBang in Florida last week and was noodging him to spend some of his free time working on the Obama campaign down there.
“If I was going to vote,” he began, and I knew that had he been within arm’s reach, I would have strangled him on the spot. I saw red. The cartoon bubble over my head was filled with mad scribblings, just like when Snoopy got very confused.
IF YOU WERE GOING TO VOTE? Spoken in a slightly superior, above-it-all tone of voice, yet?
Dude, I know that La Dolce Vita for you means swimming in the ocean as often as possible, seeing four to six movies a week, and drinking beer. That’s cool, that’s your thing. I get that you embrace simplicity: no possessions, no computer, no e-mail account, no checking account. That’s fine. Not my way, but cool.
But you’re NOT […]