As long as you remain angry at the city, you can ignore the candidate\u2019s lack of experience or inability to articulate actual policy<\/p>\n
I vote by mail in every election these days, as is my right as a mostly lazy natural-born American citizen. Fill in a few bubbles with black ink, chuck the thing into the nearest dropbox, and consider myself a functioning member of society for a brief moment. Now that my son is old enough to ask me coherent questions about my daily life, he was highly interested in what the hell I was doing as I marked the form. \u201cI\u2019m voting,\u201d I said tersely, lest I divert my attention fully from the bubble-filling. \u201cDon\u2019t vote for Spencer Pratt, daddy,\u201d he responded. \u201cI hear he\u2019s a jerk.\u201d The word seems to be spreading.<\/p>\n
Every local TV station and streaming app is turgid and bloated with political ads these days. My son might be old enough to ask me who I\u2019m voting for, but he\u2019s not old enough to understand why. That doesn\u2019t stop campaigns from serving him countless commercials pleading with him to consider (or reconsider) a certain candidate. He\u2019s now nominally aware of allegations of sexual misconduct<\/a> against LA city controller Kenneth Mejia (which Mejia has denied) and the Orange County congressman Ken Calvert\u2019s run-in with a sex worker<\/a>. What a joy it is to be a parent in 2026.<\/p>\n Dave Schilling is a Los Angeles-based writer and humorist<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As long as you remain angry at the city, you can ignore the candidate\u2019s lack of experience or inability to articulate actual policy I vote by mail in every election these days, as is my right as a mostly lazy natural-born American citizen. Fill in a few bubbles with black ink, chuck the thing into … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}