Truths and falsehoods about November 4, 2008 or "soccer seemingly trumps politics"

Facts:

• I got my absentee ballot in the mail fourteen hours before it was due.
• It would have cost me $239 to get it back to Hawaii on time.
• Now I can assign a dollar figure to how much my vote actually means to me
• That figure is $52.42.
• Not $239.
  
• So I didn't vote.
• Nevertheless, I was pretty relieved that Barack Obama was elected.

Falsehoods:

• Barack Obama will solve all or at least more than two of the nation's fundamental problems: poster child complex, national debt, negative interventionist tendencies, the imminent failure of the Social Security system, environmental negligence, corporate power, technocratic identity, the popularity of The Eagles.
• This call at the end of a game between two teams I don't even like was excellent and not so terrible that it ruined an otherwise excellent day.