Living as I do in the mythical New England town of Dunwich, election results take a little longer than they do in the outside world.\u00a0 What with eruptions of elder gods and eldritch horror of nonspecific origin popping up incessantly it takes the election committee quite a lot of time to count the white and black pebbles that we use for voting purposes.\u00a0 I mean when they\u2019re distracted, they lose count and have to start all over.\u00a0 And then there are the disqualifications. \u00a0If one of the candidates is discovered to have webbed fingers or toes or gills during the mandatory examination, then everything has to stop while the unfortunate individual is burned at the stake or crushed under a door stacked with large smooth stones.\u00a0 Lately they\u2019ve switched completely to door crushing because of the greenhouse gases emitted by the stake burning procedure.\u00a0 Time marches on.\u00a0 Of course, the runner-up is glad, as long as he isn\u2019t similarly non-conforming.<\/p>\n
Well, the point is we finally have our results and they are pleasing.\u00a0 The stupid party was resoundingly re-elected and the evil party was gratifyingly defeated.\u00a0 I performed an exorcism rite complete with incantations from the Necronomicon (or was it Comic-Con?) and rendered all attacks by the power of darkness null and void (in other words I paid up my property taxes).\u00a0 And now I can expect to enjoy another two years of quiet, efficient, demonic public service by the good people of the stupid party as they do their best to hold the powers of the evil party at bay.<\/p>\n
I intend to continue attending the local Republican Party meeting and find out if I can get involved in some less painful volunteer services.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to work with the election committee and find out how the sausages get made.\u00a0 And in fact, I\u2019d also like to find out what other functions I can help out around town.\u00a0 I may be trapped here in Dunwich for a few years so I might as well make the best of it.<\/p>\n
Who knows, maybe I\u2019ll become an adjunct lecturer at Miskatonic University in advanced perpetual motion engineering.\u00a0 We all have to do our best to save the planet.\u00a0 After all, both Greta Thunberg and Cthulhu are depending on us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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