Dead voting

In Louisiana, you may be able to have your vote count after you're dead. Of course, you'd have to fill out your absentee ballot while alive, first. Or at least, that's what the new law proposes (news stories here and here, among other places).

Predictably, there are the cries of "dead people voting," but, technically, they're voting while alive, it's just that the ballot isn't counted until they're dead. And it does make it easier/more equitable, not to have to track who might've used an absentee ballot and has died since voting.

Of course, this just makes me think of odd horror stories where carefully-dressed-up but slightly moldy undead people with long hair and fingernails come to polling places at twilight. Are they one-issue voters? (perhaps on cemetery reform? or new services for the dead?) Hm...

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Coat hooks

There are coat hooks in the women's bathroom at work, the regular metal kind with two hooks vertically aligned, two screws holding them on the wall.

Why today did they look like mini unicorned elephants?

Greening

I look out my window at work, and there are translucent bits of pollen, floating up, some in larger clumps than others.

I think of some of the early snowfalls we had this year, lacy flakes falling, and this is the reverse, headed skywards.
Or is it a model of cells in space, so very few cells, considering all the space available?
Thoughts also of Charlotte's spider babies, drifting off to unknown futures.

Very trippy, anyway, seeing how much pollen is filling the air. Luckily I'm of legal age, seeing all this unbridled tree sex going on this afternoon.

Which, of course, leads to the potential for some excellent spam:
HOT tree action! Woody all over!
Would YOU like to see deciduous action?
Birches! Oaks! Aspens!
Just click here!
etc.