Movers (and shakers?)

Over at ubiquity, Americans are being urged, with a gently serious grin, to move house if they want to influence the 2008 election. The rationale is that if you’re blue and you live in a blue state, you move to a red one and make it less red. After saying “Gosh,” (and let me tell you, I hardly ever say that word, either out loud or in my head) “how inspired!” I did a bit of thinking.

I reckon that it’d be interesting to see just how many blue people you’d need in, for example, a state like Texas to really make a difference. There are an awful lot of very, very blue people in America right now, but here at peripathetic we suspect that they’ll become less blue with the onset of Christmas and the prospect of wine and firesides and pumpkin pie.

Also — think of all those abandoned loft apartments, mansions, condos, streets and cardboard boxes in New York. The place would be like a ghost town! The Museum of Modern Art would lose its curatorial staff, creating a thieves’ open season, (does anyone know what, if anything, has become of The Scream?) and all the good male strippers would suddenly find themselves in a land of pole–less bars and hostile Sundays.

Jonathan invites foreigners to marry into America to further swing the vote. I would… but… oh, never mind. ;o)

Elsewhere, Slate says of the 9–11 Commission Report: ‘How a Government Committee made a piece of Literature’ and thereby reveals its complete philistinism — or that of the unfortunate who wrote the standfirst. You don’t ‘make’ literature — it’s not like a bed or a sandcastle. And what’s with ‘a piece’ of literature?! Huh? *sigh*