The Great White Nothing

Today is the day when one of the most frighteningly homogeneous states gathers and, in a process that in no way resembles anything remotely sensible, decides who should be the presidential candidates that the rest of America will take seriously.

Amongst the many, many flaws in this system, my favorite is this: why the hell do we let Iowa make such important decisions? The majority of Iowa is white and they don't exactly give an accurate demographic representation of America. But beyond that, the concerns of Iowans are probably significantly different from those who live in non-farmland. I put far more weight on immigration issues, gun control, and foreign policy, while I imagine that farming subsidies and ethanol nonsense is more important to those whose state depends on growing corn.

Bah humbug, I say.

In other news, yesterday I freed up about 30gb on my external hd. How? Deleted the many many duplicate mp3s living there. Backup is good, but triple redundant files on the same drive is just a waste of space.