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15 lines
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title: 'None of the Above'
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date: '2002-11-05T08:02:05-05:00'
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permalink: /none-of-the-above/
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tags:
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- politics
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Have just come from completing civic duty, which is increasingly difficult to imagine has any beneficial effect in the world, given the awful [lesser](http://www.graydavis.com/ "Lesser.")-of-two-[evils](http://www.billsimon.com/ "Evil.") choice before us here today. Thank goodness for the phone calls this weekend from [my favorite president](http://www.nbc.com/The_West_Wing/index.html "Fictional.") advising me in the casting of this vote.
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The most important race on the ballot, however, is not this year’s gubernatorial election, but that of 2006, the primary for which is being held today. Proposition 49 — aimed at creating after-school programs for “at-risk” kids (good), but funded in a loaves-and-fishes style, in which no new taxes are raised and no existing programs are cut (puzzling at best) — is the brainchild of [this candidate](http://www.joinarnold.com/ "Lesser, Evil, or Fictional? You Decide."), who everyone openly acknowledges is testing the waters for a gubernatorial run.
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And I thought the Gipper was frightening.
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