Ballot Completed!

After the national Libertarian Party spent all day Saturday in an online convention, it nominated Clemson professor Dr. Jo Jorgenson to represent the party in the upcoming presidential elections.

In so doing, they have filled in the blank on my ballot for President, since under no circumstances conceivable outside of a bad science fiction novel would I vote for either of the two major party nominees. The party nominated Spike Cohen of Muddied Water Media as its vice-presidential candidate. Cohen identifies himself as an anarchist, which should make staff meetings interesting.

Jorgenson was the vice-presidential nominee for the Libertarians in 1996. In an interview that Reason ran with her a few days before the convention, she seems clearly on the side of the Libertarian party that knows what the party wants, what positions naturally follow from the party's stated ideals, and would work to make the possible ones a reality. She seems to appreciate the irony that some folks call on a Libertarian president to enact policies that ensure freedom and liberty via the increasingly unchecked executive fiat to which modern holders of the office seem to have become accustomed.

Dr. Jorgenson teaches psychology at Clemson, and according to her Rate My Professors page she has only one bottom-level rating. That person summarizes his or her advice as follows (formatting included): "DO NOT MISS CLASS! ... PAY ATTENTION! READ THE TEXTBOOK! NO OTHER GRADES! honestly one of the worst classes i've ever taken"

The woman is clearly demented. But those of us who do not want to vote for befuddled mendacious old Boomers will just have to not miss class, pay attention, read our textbook and mark our ballots in what is honestly one of the worst elections I've ever taken.