... I have voted.
The dayjob wants me in town for the whole day on election day, as opposed to my usual Monday. So, I got me an absentee ballot. I walked to the clerk's office on Friday , filled it out Sunday, and posted it on Monday. Voting from the privacy and comfort of home is awesome. I got my League of Women Voters circular and settled in for an hour or two of reading and contemplating my vote. Yes, I take my vote very seriously, and if I didn't, my life would be in peril, as my paternal grandfather would rise from his grave and stalk me as an undead zombie until I hied myself to a polling station.
So. I don't really feel a need to comment on the ballot; all you Michiganders should know what's coming, and anyone who knows me should probably be able to figure out how I voted. There is one proposal I feel moved to speak about: dove hunting. This bill really gets my goat. Doves aren't vermin, they aren't overpopulated, they aren't a nuisance, they don't harm crops, and frankly, there's hardly a scrap of meat on them. They're cute little stupid cooing birdies with baggy lower eyelids that make them look perpetually tired. Shooting these things is tantamount to live target practice: you might as well go down to Petsmart, buy a cage of budgies, and shoot those. Honestly. I'm hardly opposed to disposing of critters that are destroying property or livelihood, and I'm all in favor of hunting, but for crying out loud, if you're going to go out and end the life of an animal that's doing you no harm, you'd darn well better consume it and clothe yourself in its hide. Anything else is seriously disrespectful to the animal.
Also, my Gram was seriously opposed to this bill. I strike my vote for her from beyond the grave! Har har! There's a post worthy of Hallowe'en.