as they say in Japan, it's erection day (want some wood?)

OK, scuse the stupid pun, if it can even be called that. It's almost 2 a.m., okay? Give me a break.

From my favorite famous political blog, "Empire Notes":

Thought for Election Day: More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen, Without Feathers.

Thanks much to faboo Betsy for having an election-night party at her house. It really helped stave off the creeping misery, or rather, shouting and stomping about that probably would have accompanied the proceedings otherwise. It was relatively fun to mill about with all our "old socialist" friends, eating scrumptious desserts and drinking a lot more than we should on a "school night".

Even "the usual suspect" repeating the same joke over and over ("are the capitalist imperialists still winning?") was strangely comforting. Although he got unnecessarily pissed off when I told a different version of one of my favorite jokes. I am providing it below, after a comment that people should all write to NBC and MSNBC to yell at them for calling Ohio early. and are the relevant addresses.

The joke:
A guy bought a parrot. The pet store owner warned hiim that this parrot really liked to swear, but the guy felt that he had a "firm hand" and he could surely bring it under control. Sure enough, he takes it home and it starts to swear like a mo****f*****. The guy sticks it in a broom closet for a few minutes, then pulls it out and asks, "Are you going to be good now?" "Are you kidding me?" screams tha parrot, "After how you've treated me, why you no-good dirty #*$&#($*&@#$^$)..." The guy puts the parrot in a foot locker to shut it up, then again pulls it out and asks, "So? Are you going to be good now?" The parrot is even more pissed off, and lets loose with an impressive string of profanity. The guy finally is at his wits' end and sticks it in the refrigerator for a few minutes, then takes it out and asks "Are you going to be good NOW?" "Yes sir, " the parrot replies meekly, and says not a single word for the rest of the day. The next day the parrot asks, "Sir, may I ask a question?" "Yes?" "What did the chicken do?"

Happy erection day.