It's like watching a train wreck - you just can't stop!

So it turns out that LJ advisory board candidate legomymalfoy received actual death threats urging her to drop out of the race. Rather than let the bastards win, she's staying in.

Former candidate (and buddy of jameth) cambler, who was losing anyway, dropped out yesterday over a rumor of death threats against an unspecified LJ-er. Now that it turns out he's not the target, rather than offering sympathy to legomymalfoy like a decent human being, he's accusing her of not caring about her family's safety and whining like a five-year-old that he was unfairly forced to drop out of the race [ETA: post is now locked] and that LJ should invalidate the whole election on his behalf. (Wahhhhh! Mommeeeeee! They made me drop out! It's somebody else's faaaauuuult!) And the commenters, who are pretty much the same group of Jameth-supporting trolls who have been acting like fuckwits all over every OTHER election post, are quick to claim the death threat's a fraud and any rise in her vote count at this point must be due to sockpuppetry. (Please note in regards to that last comment thread, the only "flak for cheating" that she's been getting, that I've seen, is from Jameth's camp's unsupported claims that she's been cheating, which is rather a different thing.)

I'm alternately horrified at these people's utter lack of human decency, and horrified at myself because I can't seem to leave it alone.

Here's a link to the voting page again, because god, I do not want to see this batch of scum win this election.

EDIT (5/30): The election's over, I'm about snarked out for a while, and so, I'm stepping away from this discussion for the moment. Non-friend comments are still screened, and I may be (very) tardy to unscreen/reply.

Happier stuff from random news-surfing

California will begin granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples on June 17. And a Reuters poll shows that a majority of Californians do not want a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage. Which means it may be here to stay. Yes!

Completely unrelated, a Tennessee woman who spent her life in an iron lung is dead at age 61. On the one hand, the way she died (power failure shut down the machinery that enabled her to breathe) is incredibly depressing. But she apparently lived a full life despite being paralyzed with only her head exposed from the machine for 60 years -- she lived with her family, got a high school diploma and wrote a children's book. And that's just awesome to me.