Re: Slate News

[Timework Web]

Jim Devine wrote,

> Why? because it awakens the public's interest in a fundamentally
> meaningless process.

Jim, 

What do you *mean* by a "fundamentally meaningless process"? 
Elections in the U.S. are fraught -- overladen -- with "meaning".
Couldn't the problem be better stated as _too much meaning_ that has no 
ostensive referent?

Tom Walker