Please go out and vote tomorrow (or today, whenever you happen to be reading this). It really is terrifically important. Particularly if you don't like the direction the country has been going in lately.

After the crushing disappointment of the 2004 elections (my birthday--my FREAKING BIRTHDAY, DAMMIT), I am afraid to even hope at all. But there are so many important races right now, and things are looking good for people on my side of the issues for the first time in a long while.

Even if you aren't a voting Idahoan, there are reasons to be interested in our state's election process this year: we have a candidate named Butch who is well known for having won a tight fitting jeans contest a few years back at a local watering hole, and a candidate who honest-to-God changed his name from Marvin to "Pro Life."

Not to mention the gay marriage ban amendment to the State constitution and the movement to return a 10 Commandments monument back to a Boise park after it was legally removed (initiated by a challenge from Fred Phelps and His Church of Kansas Nutfuckery) a few years back.

Anyway, big stuff going on. Do me proud and go vote, willya?