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\"DontVote.org\"<\/a>and therefore shouldn’t vote in the upcoming US elections. “C, You should consider not voting until you update your knowledge on contemporary issues.” Well, that and my green card status…<\/p>\n

This is what happens when you get all your US news via the internets<\/a>, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me<\/a>, and whatever scraps of the Daily Show and Colbert Report they’ve left up on YouTube<\/a>… I wouldn’t touch US politics with a 10 foot bargepole, mind, it’s gone to hell in a fundamentalist handbasket. Not that recently watching a seasonsworth of BBC 2’s Mock the Week<\/a> and the latest Radio 4’s News Quiz<\/a> inspires confidence in how my home country’s being handled neither. And then there’s Oaxaca<\/a>, jaysis… At least there’ll always be scrabble…<\/p>\n

Or will there? After a fairly hefty walk to where it was advertised I found an old abandoned caf\u00e9 and nothing going on, so I rang the bloke’s number in the paper and he said ah, now it’s in Caf\u00e9 Azteca where I went originally<\/a> weeks ago. So I started walking then thought “bugger it” and got a taxi there or i’d get there too late. So I arrive and no one’s there and I phone my scrabble contact again and he says he’ll see where Virginia’s got to, who’s the other half of the organisers. She says due to, quote, Force Majeure, unquote, there’s no scrabbling this week but they’d love me to come next Tuesday. So anyway to cut (make, US) a long story short, no scrabble today. If you don’t count the 5 online games and half dozen on my pocket PC…<\/p>\n

Sita’s got her tickets for MX today so I’ll be seeing her v. soon. Which is fantastic news. She’s got a nasty cold at the minute so send her an email and wish her well if you have a minute. Although I’m told Atticus is being the perfect nurse and sporting his hallowe’en devil horns. No photos though, I’m afraid…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

and therefore shouldn’t vote in the upcoming US elections. “C, You should consider not voting until you update your knowledge on contemporary issues.” Well, that and my green card status… This is what happens when you get all your US news via the internets, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, and whatever scraps of the Daily…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nI didn’t recognise Barbara Bush and various US senators - Gwyn's Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"and therefore shouldn't vote in the upcoming US elections. 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