Voted, which somehow makes me better than you.

Actually, I've been quite impressed with the few articles on principled nonvoting I've read recently. There's something in the NYT, of course.

But the main proponent of principled nonvoting — an idea not to be confused with the nonvoting of the already blissfully ignorant or the quixotically principled voting of third party candidate supporters — seems to be Brian Doherty at Reason.

Read his latest pro-no-vote article here, or go here for an in-depth essay.

As you could guess, the "principled nonvoting" stance pisses not a few people off. But I find his arguments strangely compelling, and if my time weren't completely useless I might not have wasted half an hour voting.

But I did, and now I want to sit back and watch the results. We'd been half-heartedly planning an Election Day party for a week or so now, even going so far as to consider reserving the second-floor lounge. But everyone flaked out: midterms tomorrow.

So it's just me and perhaps a handful of mostly sober others tonight. Which is too bad, as I had some cool drinking game ideas: shots each time a network calls the election or retracts its statement, red drinks and blue drinks, the obligatory sending of drinks when you guess a swing state correctly…