A note on voting...

Did you know that Hodgman’s second book ‘More Information Than You Require” was written and published in the midst of the last election season. With that in mind this blogpost is going to be a special Election Edition. In the spirit of this year’s election I’m going to talk about the history of democracy. As many of you may know the democracy was was first recorded having taken place in ancient Greece. It was utilized by the Athenians to try and acquire a more civil society where, in theory, everyone would be able to have a say in how the government was being run.

What most people don’t know about democracy in ancient Greece is that the Athenians needed to first put democracy through a proverbial ‘Test Run’ -- they didn’t want to drop this on their citizens. In the recent findings of ancient greek texts, it turns out that the first use of the democratic systems was explored by farmers. They would let their sheep to decide when things should be harvested, because of the sheep’s natural affinity for agricultural. Every other day, farmers would poll the sheep through the number of ‘Bahs and Mehs’, it was essentially our present day ‘Yay or Nay’ system.

As a result of the direct success of Athens’ flourishing agriculture, the scholars of Athens decided to further test out democracy’s applications. Athenian scholars decided to use democracy in their own households for a while, until they realized that it wasn’t really working. Their children really couldn’t say much because of their limited knowledge of social understandings of the nuclear family and its functions. The husband and wife rarely ever agree so they would constantly be in the midst of a Mexican Standoff -- or as they call it in Mexico a 'Standoff'.

Thinking that this system might be a crapshoot the scholars decided to apply it to one more area of their lives. They decided to use it everyday for a week to decide the most important aspect of their day -- Lunch. At the end of every day they would drop ballots in a box to decide what they’d eat the next day. While some people didn’t always get what they wanted, it still proved to be a smashing success. A majority of what they ate every week was bread slathered in some sort of olive sauce and goat cheese -- which was the closest thing to pizza they had back then.
Democracy was later adopted by many other cultures and adapted to what we now have today in this country. People would argue that it’s flawed, but in my opinion it ain’t that bad cause it could always be worse.

- That’s it, Good Day...

Tips for the Internet (cont.)

1. Sarcasm has proven to be very hard to interpret over the internet, so in order to make it easier to convey there is now are indicated sarcasm fonts that people can use.
2. Big Brother is watching you...ALWAYS!