Octopodial Chrome

For Christmas, some friends of my parents—people whom I’ve never met—gave each of us boys a truly wonderful Sheaffer fountain pen. A real one, with a bladder one fills with ink. It’s a truly wonderful thing. Writing is so much fun with it, both normal Roman letters but most especially J.R.R. Tolkien’s Tengwar. I don’t believe that I’ll ever be able to write with even a roller ball again, much less a loathsome ball point. Life is good.

It looks as though the antics of Florida weren’t enough for the Democratic party. Now that they’ve claimed the vote of those too infernally stupid to figure out a ballot, they’re trying to pick up the felon vote as well. I think that the Democrats serve as a wonder reminder that yes, it is possible to be worse than the Republicans. The Greens, of course, serve the same purpose for the Democrats.