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Update 10/21/04: Okay, I’m seeing a lot of Google hits from people searching on “you should vote for.” If you want a serious answer, I have a much more substantive post here. This post itself is somewhat of a joke. For those of you looking for an answer of why you should vote, maybe I’ll write up something later (I figured the answer is obvious, but I guess not), but a short snarky answer is so that you can then have the right to complain about whomever wins. And complaining about politics is fun.

Well, not to disclose too much, but at this particular event, I did… um… mix my poisons, which led my mind on some rather strange paths (when I wasn’t busy dancing to the cool music and tripping out to all the visuals). One of the unexpected effects was that my sense of self-importance was greatly inflated (especially when I got my cute fishy balloon hat).

I think I’ll save the details for later (or maybe just for myself), but for one, I thought everyone there would see the hat and then go find my blog the next morning, because I was Neo, the chosen one. And thus I’d have the power to influence everybody to vote for the candidate of my choosing in November (somehow ignoring the tiny little detail that I’m in California, which is not exactly a swing state).

And furthermore, due to my blogging about the flaws of e-voting and the need for a voter-verifiable paper trail, I could now pick anybody I wanted as a write-in candidate — because you can write on paper (somehow ignoring, among many other things, the fact that H.R.2239 and S.1980 have not yet passed). So all I had to do was choose the right person for the job…

And in perhaps the only coherent thought I had all night, it didn’t take too long for me to choose… Tyler Cowen. (What, you expected Winona Ryder? Please. She’s not even returning my calls!)

After all, as I mentioned earlier, I’m a big fan of Tyler Cowen, and not just cuz I love Fight Club and think it’s cool that the name Tyler Cowen looks a lot like Tyler Durden, only with a Cow instead of a Durd — um, okay, that didn’t come out the way I thought it would.

Anyway, the next morning, I definitely laughed at a lot of what I said, did, and thought that night (not the least of which was that, at one point, I jumped up on stage). But after reading this post articulating Cowen’s opinion of what the Bush team’s economic vision should look like, voting for Tyler Cowen certainly doesn’t sound crazy at all.

Not as crazy as jumping on stage or voting for Badnarik, anyway.

Update 8/16/04

Tyler Cowen adds one more proposal to his original twelve, but most significantly, he mentions this:

Last week I presented twelve ideas for a domestic economic policy Republican vision for a Bush second term. I appreciate all those who wrote with additional ideas, or who suggested they might write in my name for President.

Emphasis mine, of course. Very interesting development! He specifically said, “all those” and “they.” Do you know what this means? It means I’m not the only one who thought of this!

“Tyler Cowen for President” is now, officially… a MOVEMENT!! YAAAAAH!!!