VOTE!

Get out and vote today, please. If you're in Mass., like I am, you get to vote on some juicy referendae, like whether or not there should be a state income tax (of course there's no plan for coming up with the lost revenue) or whether Spanish kids should be forced to learn English in one year before being put into all-english classes (instead of sticking with ESL like we have now). There's also a cheap re-do of a referendum that passed a couple of years ago, but the politicians didn't like the result so it's on the ballot again: a Clean Elections campaign finance law. This time, to make it sound more unsavory to the voters, it's worded to emphasize that taxpayer money will finance the law. How much? $4 per taxpayer. I'd pay 10 times that much if it meant no corporate interests pulling the strings of my elected official.

So anyway, get out and vote. It's easy, it's kind of fun to see how it all works, and afterwards you get a nice warm "I'm an American citizen, and I VOTE!" feeling.