Nov. 4 cannot arrive quickly enough..What is going to kill you?

Yes, that is election day here in the dis-United States of America. There is so much crazy talk on what is, let us face it, a two-party system that is really more of of a one party system with slightly different shades of color.

I have made no secret of the fact that I am represented by no political party, but small differences in initial conditions can result in large differences over time.

No. You are not going to have to suffer through the relevant points in chaos theory from me.

People--at large--are so poor at statistics that they believe the garbage about ISIS/ISOL being a huge threat. On this blog we do statistics. This is a fear free blog. Since YOU and me too, are 8x as likely to be killed with a cop's gun than you are to die via a terrorist attack on US soil, we should be clamoring 8x as much to disarm cops than to worry about terrorism. Are we? Not that that I can tell.

there's a fun breakdown about causes of death here.

A little perspective shows us that taking better care of our personal health is THOUSANDS of times more important than terrorism. You are 1,048x more likely to die in an auto wreck than via a terrorist attack.

This is why people vote against their best interests. By and large, people in the US are lead much more by fear, than by reason.

Even without a hard statistical analysis, one can see that some kind of universal health care is a most important concern IF large swaths of people can be lead to a more healthy lifestyle. Terrorism, on the other hand, should be a non-starter.

No number fudging here, just a much less fear ridden perspective

Oh, and lest anyone think I will not be voting, that notion is errant as I will be at the polls by 8 AM on Tuesday.