Dee-Rob

Writing. Some comedy, some not.

Little special election on the prairie

Posted by Dee-Rob on May 20th, 2009

Today was yet another special election in California. Another opportunity for we the people to fuck with the mechanisms of a representative democracy, spite our legislators and generally make California a rather hard to manage, not exactly thriving state economy.

I voted. It didn’t matter. But the Governator was asking for our help, as were various committees of legislators and a lot of shouting special interest groups, and our budget is fucked about 12 ways to Sunday. I voted some yeses and some nos and found it all confusing. Most of the other voters, the few of us who cared, voted some solid fuck you nos to the powers that be.

The highlight for me was the realization that straight across the street from my neighborhood polling place, which, of course, is in my very won neighborhood more or less, was a pair of llamas chilling on the front lawn of an old barn house. The photos don’t do llama justice, but they caught the almost fading into sunset sky.

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Comment by Bill Hogan
2009-05-20 06:57:24

I see ‘em……and why would someone want to keep llamas in California? For the wool, the meat or just some confused Dalai Lama fan?

 
Comment by veda
2009-05-20 10:56:26

funny how them peruvian beasties gets about
many moons ago on the north yorksire moors me n some mates got drunk in a windswept pub
and wobbled out into the carpark to confront a kin gurt herd of the buggers
we had to go back and drink some more
we reconed the landlord had em to improve custom
we also invented the vodka snowball that day
stuff legends are made from

dave

 
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