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Election Jitters?

November 4, 2008

Jim Hynes has ’em:

Today is Election Day, and I’m suffering from metaphor overload. My nerves are shredded. I’m as jumpy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. I’m vibrating with anxiety like a tuning fork. My forebrain, and the poll numbers at Real Clear Politics, are telling me I shouldn’t worry so much, but my shrill, hysterical, paranoid lizard brain is screaming constantly at a pitch only dogs can hear. I can’t even claim to be unique: you can read all about my condition in the New York Times.

If you have ’em too, take the Hynes approach: Vote, and find something good and scary to read.

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