QotD

"'Twas Halloween and the ghosts were out,
 And everywhere they'd go, they shout,
 And though I covered my eyes I knew,
 They'd go away.

"But fear's the only thing I saw,
 And three days later 'twas clear to all,
 That nothing is as scary as election day."

-- Norah Jones, from "My Dear Country" (Not Too Late, Blue Note Records, 2007); written before the 2004 US election