Watching Tina Fey today was a scary reminder that there is a little election thing going on, and that I should probably cast a vote.  Though planning on being back east during the crucial day, I registered AK absentee (this form, the deadline postmark is Oct. 4, or you can email it in .pdf) I stumbled on google’s nifty election tool, which has registration and other great info wired to your location:

And just to clarify, few sane folk here are into Palin.  There was a great sigh of relief when she was finally allowed onto the public stage without (as many) handlers so she could relay just how close Russia really is to Alaska. A great homegrown explanation for everyone else by a few folks in Juneau can be found here (some of their other videos are pretty okay too, they threw the Palin one together pretty quick). Good luck, ‘merica.