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Fewer and fewer citizens have been taking action at the most basic level: the voting booth. Not only should more people vote, but voters should be better informed. A democracy shouldn't have a 'right not to vote' either. This nation lacks a feature of many European democracies--compulsive voting. In fact, we move in the opposite direction with obligatory registration. We need to do everything we can to make voting easier, and mandatory...
...comic confusion. For his family, clustered around his bedside, get the impression that she's his fianca and, being nice, warm people, take her into their circle. She doesn't have the heart to tell them the truth: that she's just a girl who works in a change booth on the Chicago El who never had the gumption to speak to him when he bought his tokens from her every morning. Luckily, the family harbors an authentic prince, Peter's brother Jack (Bill Pullman), whose initial suspicion of Lucy is, of course, the harbinger of true love...
...delineations of a date are infinitely problematic. For example, the other night, I somewhat reluctantly accompanied a male friend to the North End for dinner. As we sat in the lounge of a shitty Italian restaurant (I'm allergic to Italian food) waiting for our Formica booth to be ready, we were surrounded by aged alcoholics and squirming children, all of whom were silently and raptly watching golf on the big screen TV (I hate watching golf). In the midst of our stilted and awkward conversation, I was informed, to my surprise, that we were in fact on a date...
Other landlords agreed, accusing tenant groups of being unable to accept their defeat at the bench and in the voting booth...
...resulting drive was terrifying and endless. I was forced to drive over terrain and through obstacles that I had never tackled before. I drove through a toll booth and clumsily made change with the attendant, who was not amused by my awkwardness in maneuvering the car so our hands could meet, I drove through the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel and tried to forget that I absolutely detest tunnels. I then drove over the Verrezano Narrows Bridge. Immortalized in Saturday Night Fever, one of my favorite films, the Verrezano is the world's longest suspension bridge. And I drove over it, reaching...