presidential debate -- the condom wars

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Joe paused on the way out to his car today, looked across the street to where I was sitting on the porch, waved and called out, "You watching the debate tonight?" "Not on your life," I called back. "You watch for me."

What a pity.

I take voting as a responsible act and do it religiously, even if "nothing ever changes." But an Internet dictionary defines "debate" as "a discussion in which people or groups state different opinions about a subject" and both candidates have proven to my satisfaction that they are unwilling or unable to find, much less discuss, a subject.

War, the economy, education, health care ... each is addressed only to the extent one candidate can accuse the other having gotten it wrong, been a hypocrite ... blah, blah, blah. How can it be considered good citizenship to listen to this sort of stuff or accord it a designation as a "debate?"

Tonight, if assertions of the recent past are any example, each man will don a safe-sex condom and then moan as if it were as good as unsafe sex ... and it's pretty much a sure thing who's gonna get fucked.
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