on voting:

Its hard not to scoff when they talk about hope and freedom
Its hard to want to participate in a government you fundamentally don't have any faith in,
its hard to put trust in a voting system that election after election has proven to be at best, unreliable, and at worst, utterly corrupt,
and its hard to overlook how vastly insignificant your one little vote is,

but SEVEN YEARS of pointless war, hundreds of thousands of people dead for no reason, the most inane, backwards and racist education policies imaginable, the fanatical restrictions on science and choice, billions upon billions of OUR dollars wasted, and further permitted corporate destruction of our natural habitat has proven to me that voting is worth doing anyway, because the difference between the lesser of two evils might just mean the difference between living and dying for more real actual people then there are endangered species to kill, fetuses to save, jobs to outsource, or inner-city children to forsake, or any of the other shenanigans these liars, gluttons and thieves might try to pull, given the power to do so. But the power will be given to one of them, no matter what we do right now.

This is not a surrender, not a compromise, voting is only the smallest of actions of self defense one can take.
in conclusion,
I'm rooting for Obama.