Today I took my car in to finally get it registered in Texas (yes, Ma, I live in Texas!) where the lady offered me a voter registration form. I asked her if I should take it with me, and she said no, that I should fill it out and she would take it for me as voter registration is in the same building. Well, you can call me cynical and I’ll believe you from here forth, because I was totally dumbfounded that this woman would wait for me to fill out this dumb form and process it for me right there when I actually came in to to do something totally different! That seemed to me above and beyond the call of duty, and I certainly didn’t expect to find that kind of service related to voting in a conservative state (Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America’s Worst Places to Cast a Ballot (or Try)). So, I guess this is a hat tip to Texas and a reminder that even though it can seem like a pain-in-the-arse to register, if you don’t do it, you won’t be able to vote in this important upcoming election.

I know that there is a media circus going on around the primaries, and I’m kind of staying away from it, probably wrongly, but I just can’t help but feel that this whole thing had shied so far away from people and our day-to-day lives. It’s kind of embarrassing from a global perspective. I wonder what it looks like from the outside. Any non-North American readers out there? I’d love to hear from you!