Voting on election day

[T]t’s not so hard to adjust our imaginations… we can take a moment to picture a labyrinthine, sometimes obscure process in action—people and machines working together, perhaps under unpleasant circumstances, to obey our command… we might imagine a forest of gears turning, intricately enmeshed, and wonder if they’re the right gears, and if they fit as they should, and if they’ve been inspected. –Joshua Rothman This morning I got up early to bike to the polls, here in northern Virginia. Last night I arrived home very late, flying back from a midwestern gig, but today wanted to get ahead of... [Read more...]