• Musings

    How Gavin Newsome Made Me a Criminal (Maybe)

    I have received my unsolicited vote-by-mail ballot. So have others in my household who never actually vote even though they apparently registered to vote at some point in their past. It’s not clear to me why they are each reluctant to vote when each election rolls around, maybe distaste for politics, maybe disillusionment, maybe apathy, maybe laziness. It turns out they would each be happy to sign their ballot and let me cast their votes as I see fit. My normal character, conditioned over many years, compels me to avoid illegalities at all costs. I make full and complete stops when turning right on a red traffic light, so casting…