Caveat: Excuses and Psephology

"If he wins… Black people, we gonna have to come up with another excuse." – Comedian Wanda Sykes.  This is one of those jokes that only a black person – such as Wanda – is allowed to say. 

Indeed, I may be treading on the edge of offensiveness merely by quoting it.  But I'll give it a try, because it seemed funny to me, at the time I heard it.

I learned a new word this evening:  psephology – the statistical study of elections.  I rather like this word, for some reason.  Not as much as mereological, though.  I wonder, what would it mean to practice mereological psephology?  I'll do some research.

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