{"id":3233,"date":"2005-11-08T00:32:43","date_gmt":"2005-11-08T08:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2005\/11\/08\/3233.html"},"modified":"2005-11-08T00:32:43","modified_gmt":"2005-11-08T08:32:43","slug":"ballot-measure-drinking-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2005\/11\/08\/ballot-measure-drinking-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot measure drinking game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started this as a postscript to the previous entry, but I got a little carried away and decided to give it an entry of its own.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some notes toward a ballot-measure drinking game.  (Several of these only apply in California, though.)<\/p>\n<p>You have to drink every time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you find your mind drifting while reading an incredibly dry description of a proposition<\/li>\n<li>you can't understand what the hell the measure is talking about or why anyone cares<\/li>\n<li> an argument or rebuttal uses the phrase \"DON'T BE FOOLED!\"<\/li>\n<li>there's an argument or rebuttal written by Gary B. Wesley, Attorney At Law (a fixture of the California ballot scene; he invariably opposes all measures which are not absolutely perfect in phrasing and implementation, especially if they might cost taxpayers money) (drink twice if he's the <em>only<\/em> person to sign an anti-proposition argument or rebuttal)<\/li>\n<li>an argument or rebuttal uses a phrase like \".&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;but Prop. [number] isn't the answer.\"<\/li>\n<li>the legislative analyst says that the fiscal impact would depend on future events<\/li>\n<li>the legislative analyst says that the state would save money on a measure that cuts jobs or makes it easier to fire people<\/li>\n<li>an argument or rebuttal in favor of a bond measure explains that it's not a tax<\/li>\n<li>a ballot measure is utterly ridiculous, trivial, or silly (usually for local measures, but occasionally applicable at the state level)<\/li>\n<li>a ballot measure tries to get funding for schools by raising property taxes<\/li>\n<li>an argument or rebuttal slams the Governor<\/li>\n<li>the Governor signs an argument<\/li>\n<li>an argument or rebuttal blames a class of people widely understood to be villainous, such as \"politicians,\" \"trial lawyers,\" \"special interests,\" \"environmentalists,\" etc.<\/li>\n<li>a single argument or rebuttal uses ALL CAPS for some text and <em>italics<\/em> for other text (drink twice if they use both for the same text)<\/li>\n<li>an argument or rebuttal includes a supporting quote from a major newspaper<\/li>\n<li>a proposition, argument, or rebuttal makes you want to scream and throw the pamphlet across the room<\/li>\n<li>you can't stand reading any more of the pamphlet while sober<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started this as a postscript to the previous entry, but I got a little carried away and decided to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}