Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Checking the mailbox this evening, Ol’ Robbo found four fliers from the County Election Board addressed, respectively, to Self, Mrs. Robbo, and the two Elder Gels. The fliers contained information related to this November’s mid-term elections, including confirmation of our polling place and details on where, when, and how to pick up and send in absentee ballots.
The usual stuff, yes, but it was neat to hold the fliers in my hand and contemplate the fact that Port Swiller Manor is now a four-vote household. (Youngest will be old enough to vote in 2020.)
Ironically, up until a week or two ago, I don’t think any of the ladies had all that much interest in this November. Let’s just say that with all the recent Supreme Court nomination shenanigans, that attitude has changed. Emphatically. And probably not the way those responsible for said shenanigans would have liked.
The Port Stands At Your Elbow 
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September 27, 2018 at 10:52 pm
tubbs
And the two sins against the Holy Ghost are presumption and despair.
September 27, 2018 at 10:58 pm
Robbo
Heh. Judas called and said “Tell me about it.”
September 27, 2018 at 11:03 pm
tubbs
I am so cynical after today.
I can only wish to be as upbeat as you.
September 28, 2018 at 5:01 am
Victoria
Didja know that Tom Hanks is helping to get out the vote? Oh yes.
https://triblive.com/local/allegheny/14117544-74/tom-hanks-implores-we-the-people-to-get-out-and-vote-during
September 28, 2018 at 9:52 am
sleepybeth
I can’t help but harken back to your “reasonable person” comment at my place t’other day and just shake my head. Because this circus? This is exactly the fear that lingers in the back of my mind. And maybe in a court of law there would need to be reasonable person evidence, but how does that matter in a world where the court of public opinion is all one apparently needs?
I’m with tubbs – my cynicism has sunk to great new depths.
September 28, 2018 at 1:34 pm
Robbo
Oh, I’ve always been cynical about these things. I view government as a necessary evil. I view politicians as defined by Richard Jordan’s Jeffrey Pelt character from The Hunt For Red October: “When I’m not kissing babies, I’m stealing their lollypops.” I view collectivist authoritarianism in all its manifestations and its Will to Power as a satanic cult. And I view the post-modern world that it’s creating as something not far short of hell on earth.
For all that, I thought yesterday was extraordinary, even transcendent. Kavanaugh and Graham, especially, called out the Beast for what it is and sent it reeling. And I think a lot of people may have been jolted awake by this. Even the usually non-politickal Mrs. Robbo spent the entire afternoon glued to CSPAN, and has talked of almost nothing else since.
We shall see, of course, but Dum Spiro, Spero.