Voter fraud? No big deal, probably.

Look for more (and more egregious) examples of this as we approach November. No, I don't want Santorum to win, but at least it would be comforting to know where Nehemiah Scudder actually was.

If you vote on any level except the local, you are wasting your time, energy, and brain power.  If your vote really mattered, Santorum would have thrown a fit. If your vote realy mattered, these people wouldn't be in power anyway.

If you vote, you're saying "I believe in this system, I believe it is honest enough to participate in, and I believe I can actually accomplish something by participating." 

If you vote, you're not just cooperating with the inevitable, you're holding the victim down for the guards.

If you vote, you are responsible for their decisions.

This should replace those "I VOTED!" stickers.

Oh, by the way

Now that I'm back on nights, I am apparently smarter than everyone in the world, or something.  I dunno.

Research examining various psychological correlates of circadian type (also known as diurnal preference) has been, over the years, quite expansive. A notable omission within this research program would appear a systematic exploration of the relation between intelligence and morningness–eveningness. The present study redressed this imbalance. 420 participants performed two self-report inventories assessing circadian type, as well as measures of intelligence from two psychometric batteries: CAM-IV and the ASVAB. The results indicate that, contrary to conventional folk wisdom, evening-types are more likely to have higher intelligence scores. This result is discussed in relation to current theories concerning the nature of human cognitive abilities.

Bad Reporting

In another case of ignoring the "man bites dog rule of journalism," the NY Daily News is reporting some unsurprising shit:

"Tavarez was ... was worried about getting sent back [to patrol] and, you know, the supervisors getting on his case," he recounted at the corruption trial of Brooklyn South narcotics Detective Jason Arbeeny.
"I had decided to give him [Tavarez] the drugs to help him out so that he could say he had a buy," Anderson testified last week in Brooklyn Supreme Court.

He made clear he wasn't about to pass off the two legit arrests he had made in the bar to Tavarez.
"As a detective, you still have a number to reach while you are in the narcotics division," he said.

NYPD officials did not respond to a request for comment.


Anderson worked in the Queens and Brooklyn South narcotics squads and was called to the stand at Arbeeny's bench trial to show the illegal conduct wasn't limited to a single squad.

"Did you observe with some frequency this ... practice which is taking someone who was seemingly not guilty of a crime and laying the drugs on them?" Justice Gustin Reichbach asked Anderson.

"Yes, multiple times," he replied.