Sorry, Rumplephoreskin , but sometimes I hate myself too.
I wish I cared more about who really killed Laci and Conor.
I would be more popular if I gave a shit about America's Hottest IdolModel or Howard's latest fight with the FCC.
I would probably be more fun to be around if I could contribute to the burning controversy over the ending of Lost.
I don't give a fuck, and I don't know about any of it.
So why do I feel embarassed to admit that I do care about what the good Christ happened to the most important election of our life?
Why do I hesitate to mention, even here, that new studies are being done?
I can't make it beautiful or poetic.
(Even when I go to a museum to get away from thinking about this stuff, I practically trip over a gift-shop copy of Zinn's "Artists In a time of War", the source of my title.)
But a funny thing just happened- while I was looking for a quote from Saul Williams that I remembered reading about a year ago about artists and duty and politics and creativity and all that shit, I found this-
"We demand a truth naturally at one with the land/
Not a plant that photosynthesizes bombs on demand/
Or a search for any weapons we let fall from our hands/
I got beats and a plan/
I'm gonna do what I can."
– Saul Williams, "Act III, Scene 2"
And I realized that the biggest innovation in music in the past twenty years has been..... sampling.
And the revolution in literature is .....cut-and-paste.
And it's okay to repeat something over an insistent beat.
And we want to know what happened to those votes.
"Professor Steven Freeman, a statistician at the University of Pennsylvania, offers a disturbing answer. Looking at the exit polls and announced results in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania, he concludes that the odds against such an accidental discrepancy in all three states together was 250 million to one.
"As much as we can say in social science that something is impossible, it is impossible that the discrepancies between predicted and actual vote counts in the three critical battleground states of the 2004 election could have been due to chance or random error."
Read Dr. Freeman's well-reasoned, well-written argument, and make up your own mind".
The Unexplained Exit Poll Descrepancy
