A weird nostalgia brought me to Assunpink this morning because I remembered being there on an Election Day 10 years ago. It wasn't that I expected to find anything special there, and I hadn't 10 years ago either, according to my eBird report, but when I ponder the absolute mess we're in, I think back to a conversation I had with a young guy there while I was scoping the lake. He was off from work or school because of the "holiday" and was just hanging out "in nature." Curious as to what I was looking at, he started talking to me and I must have been in a decent mood because I answered his questions about the ducks and geese on the water. I wish I recalled how, but the conversation veered to evolution, and I gave him the quick, canned version of "birds are the last of the dinosaurs."
"Dinosaurs," he said, "that was before Christ, wasn't it?"
"Quite a while before," I affirmed, while thinking to myself:
And yet, you're allowed to vote.
