PSA for USA

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Passing along the word from Zentronix:

For many states, the voter registration deadline is SATURDAY, October 4 or MONDAY, October 6th.

Click here to check your state.

Briefly exchanged comments with magicnoire during the VP debate here and here. I am not personally in the "every time Sarah Palin speaks I want to punch her" camp. On the contrary: I wish Palin would keep opening her mouth, so she can keep putting her foot in it. >_> Palin, and the economy dying over and over again, are what will swing the election, if anything will.

Not that I'm happy with the state of the economy, just happy that the meltdown has been timed so conveniently wrt to the election cycle.

Besides zentronix above, I've following Ross Douthat at the Atlantic, who occasionally posts about nerdy pop culture things in addition to being my -- and, I suspect, many liberals' -- favorite Republican to point to as proof that the "other side" agrees with me/us. XD;

In other news, the sign-up period for "real people in historical fiction" @ bibliophages ended yesterday. But you can still read for this round! Here is the recommendation list.

Last point: saw Transsiberian today. This is a movie that could have been made ten years ago -- everything from the speeches comparing the USSR to the "new" Russia and finding the later lacking, to the flashback reminders of key plot points, reminded me of movies that were playing in theaters when I was in middle school. Basic plot: Hapless American tourists fall prey to good-looking con artists and are entangled in a drug-trafficking scheme aboard the Trassiberian Express...actually, the Americans aren't totally hapless, or blameless, which was a pleasant surprise. But man, wasn't it CONVENIENT that Carlos DID have a history of sexual assault, HAD stolen from the drug bosses, and DID plant drugs in Jesse's bags? Otherwise she might have had to question the moral rightness of hitting him over the head with a plank and leaving him in a field to die!