"And I think it's gonna be a long long time

Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket Man! Burning out his his fuse up here alone"

That was playing at the store last night and it struck a chord.

So there's a race for mayor going on in Toronto- have you heard about this? Have you heard about this? It looks like Sarah Thompson is about to drop out, which is a good thing to stop vote splitting.

A while back I was hearing about how big a lead Rob Ford was enjoying against his other rivals- but in fact he was only just beating the other candidate "Unsure". Man, just give that Unsure guy a push.

Someone said you have to vote or else you have no right to complain, but that doesn't make sense to me- if you're only begrudgingly voting for SOMEONE for the sake of being allowed to complain- that's a problem. Duh.

Rather I had the idea: if you walked out and talked to one person, and between the two of you decided who would make the better mayor. Then you two talked to a third person, determining between that previously acknowledged candidate and this new person. Afterwards you've got a candidate with three supporters- and you keep going until you've found the person that wins the election by sheer force of numbers.

Obviously it wouldn't work considering how long that'd take- but doing THAT would mean you... actually, with that kind of involvement in the choice of the new candidate, you couldn't really complain either. That system is more of a "good mayor or bust" scenario.

Ah, well, we'll see what happens come mayor voting for time. Whenever that is- Oct 22?