Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life. ~ W.E.B. DuBois Despite never having been much for political participation of any sort, there I was this past presidential Election Day, accompanied by my wife, throwing my vote down a Third Party's hopeless maw. In my mind, voting is to politics as pro-wrestling is to sports: an amusing farce, enlivened with empty boasts and the occasional skull-cracking chair. My wife, God bless her soul, tossed her vote onto Barack Obama's mighty pile. Then off we went, invited to an election night party filled … Continue reading Grasping at Flotsam