Stupid

     So much to ridicule tonight, starting with kindergarten, whose grownups apparently are unacquainted with five- and six-year-old people. This week's Big Dumb Idea concerns a Halloween party during school tomorrow. Here's what I think when I hear "Halloween party": Halloween costumes. Yes? No. The directive is for the child to "dress as your favorite story book character." Never mind that my child wants to be a fairy queen ballerina ghost, a costume she has been planning for weeks to wear for Halloween, which is an awesome fake holiday and which tomorrow is. Halloween. Other children may dream of dressing up as spiders, or witches, or hobos. Because it's Halloween all across this great land of ours tomorrow. Halloween, not to be confused with Story Book Day, which is not a fake holiday in America because it is lame. 

     So, fucked once again by kindergarten and the evil choice between fighting the stupid and ensuring our daughter doesn't feel hopelessly odd and left out, we must now come up with an additional costume based on an emergency favorite story book character, which we are having a tough time doing because we are frightened of, not delighted by, wolves and trolls and chubby brother-and-sister teams who shove old ladies into ovens. 

     According to the overinvolved, understimulated kindergarten party planners, making our original, excellent fairy queen ballerina ghost costume just wasn't challenging enough.

     Stupid kindergarten.

     In other dumb, nine percent of eligible voters still have not made up their minds. Oh here's a choice for you, intelligent, ethical leadership to dig you out of the ditch you've put yourself in or a flaming vat of lying dogshit. Hmm. Don't know? FAIL. Forfeit turn. Disallowed to vote. 

     Honestly, I don't care what the undecideds do; I just want them to go away. I want to stop hearing about them, their smug, coy "power," how they're the key to the election. Get the fuck out of the way already.

     Stupid.

     This, too, from today's boneheaded McPalin dolts.

     And this, from the Old (and I mean old) Guard.

     And this.

     Oh, and there's this crap to look forward to.

     All this, and so much more, in just one day. And I didn't even have to go off the blogs.

UPDATE 10/31/08

     God in heaven, this AP article puts the number of "persuadables" at 14% and clarifies who these people are: the accepted euphemism is "low-information voters," but I prefer the more accurate moniker, "stupid fuckers."