You know the biggest waste of time ever, much as I hate to say it, was Scotland yesterday! As someone on my Friends list who works with one of the parties pointed out... four months, the equivalent of $400m spent on the election campaigns... and on the day, not a single seat in the entirety of Scotland changed hands.

I think that most people are just scared of it because it's at a time where there's been a very wide change, too (as much as I would like to see that word "change" banned from party campaigns for the next fifty years now) - the second-biggest swing in recent memory, and into a situation that hasn't happened since a decade before I was born. I'm sure people will adapt to the idea eventually...

And, well, you are American, but being unusually well-versed among its population in the histories and existence of other countries is never a bad thing!