I have somehow managed to keep from posting much about the primary elections going on in the US now. (Which seem to have been going on forever and are nowhere near finished....) But I wanted to pass this along. Alison Bechdel is a writer who has been penning a comic strip about a group of lesbians and their friends and families, for the past 20 years. She recently did an episode in which she speculated "What if we conducted our everyday lives the same way we do our electoral system?" I got a few laughs out of it -- here's the link .