Echidne posted that a teacher resigned when her school wanted her to take a 21-day leave and produce a note from her doctor because she had been on a medical mission trip to Kenya. The distance from where the Ebola outbreak is and Kenya is about the same as LA to NYC, or Dublin to Moscow.

Connecticut is the current leading contender for “Dumbest Reaction by State Officials to Ebola” as they quarantine people for just about any connection to East Africa or an Ebola patient.

While looking at stories about Connecticut I ran into a lot of negative comments about Kaci Hickox from people upset that she actively opposed being quarantined. The general reasons for these people being upset seemed to be: she’s female; she’s educated; and she’s ‘uppity’. These people felt she should have just done what the males wanted her to do and ignored her direct knowledge of dealing with Ebola because ‘Father knows best’ and imply she was a direct threat to their personal health. The anti-intellectual misogyny was something to behold.

It took me less than 5 minutes at a little after 2PM CST as I was the only one in the place.

From the signs just outside the exclusion zone I see that Amendment 1 is supposed to be ‘a land grab’. I’m not sure how dedicated funding to a trust to buy land translates into a ‘land grab’, but some people seem to believe it.

Amendment 2 is supposed to support drug abuse. How replacing Oxycotin and other addictive narcotic pain killers with marijuana supports drug abuse is beyond me, but some people believe it enough to have signs printed.

So far my vote has counted, as I can see them in the counts in Okaloosa County.