Today's election day!

And we won't have to hear anymore campaign commercials for a while! Yea!

I don't live in Tulsa so I don't get to vote -- something of a relief since the ballot this year is kind of a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" sort of choice. We know both of the major candidates have a tendency to "misspeak." We know they're both experts at talking without saying anything, twisting words, and giving what sounds like actual answers but really aren't. We know they've both done things that are, at best, unethical and, at worst, illegal. How do you choose between two people like that?

Actually I could make a decision if I got to vote. We know what kind of mayor the incumbent has been. Why would we choose another term of that?

The best part of any election to me is the end of the campaigning. I hate the commercials and the ads and the debates and the blasted signs pasted all over creation. Politicians always make me think of that old joke -- How can you tell So-and-so is lying? His mouth is moving. And it seems the campaigns start earlier with each election. I just want to puke when they start showing up on my TV.

Now we'll be campaign-free for a while. Wow -- just think of it: the Olympics are over, the basketball tournament is over or almost so, and the election will very soon be history. I feel a great peace descending over me even as I type. Rachel2:43 PM