Hemidemisemiquavers

Last week our family went to the movies together. We were discussing super heroes and the ludicrous crises that happen to them on screen. We began rattling off different crazy scenarios that a super hero might have to deal with and one of the children said, "gravity fails on Earth and everything starts to float away." Isaac, our 10 year old, said, "Oh! The evolutionists with him would love it!" Pretending to to be one of them, he raised his hands, lifted a bit out of his seat and jubulantly shouted, "I'm flying!"

This quote from Burt Prelutsky, on 13 Aug. 2007, sums up my opinion of people who won't vote unless they have the perfect candidate. Though I must say that I don't mind voting for third-party candidates, which others consider a "throw away" vote, because I believe it helps the system to run more than two parties.
"The way I see it, whoever runs against Hillary Clinton deserves to win. So far as I’m concerned, those Republicans who threaten to stay home on Election Day in 2008 if their personal favorite isn’t the nominee, just so they can self-righteously claim they didn’t violate their principles, are beneath contempt. Cutting off your nose to spite America is not commendable. It’s my conviction that anyone who permits this country to be saddled with a left-wing Medusa surrenders all claims of moral superiority.
In short, I am not one of those people who would care to have engraved on his tombstone: Here Lies Burt Prelutsky Who Never Voted for the Lesser of Two Evils."