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I am a libertarian myself and I feel like a non-Christian during the Christmas season. Neither the Donkey or Elephant candidate is at all desirable, but a Libertarian president is not going to happen in my lifetime. So do you undervote and not vote for president or do you vote for the least malodorous candidate. I haven't sorted that out yet.



I've sorted it out: you vote any checkbox _but_ the one containing the name of a certain power-drunk fundamentalist minivan mom that's made a career of sneaking up the ladder of authority one step at a time while no one paid attention. Let's pay attention this time.

I was at the fed state department building in L.A. recently and it was disheartening to see posted notices urging that U.S. related emblems, flags and symbols be concealed or removed from items before traveling abroad. Pretty embarrassing to have to hide the country I'm from.

Leaders that practice or contribute even in small ways to isolationism and lack of regard for what other countries think of us is not a good long-term strategy.

Obama has at least vowed to keep an open mind and sit with adversarial nations. That'd be my strategy. Go to Iran, have dinner with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, get him drunk (he doesn't drink - we'll change that), hold his hand, stroke his cheek, find out his favorite color, find out what he recalls as the earliest memory of childhood. Keep him close, real close. Rinse/cycle/repeat for all the other nuts.