I've just looked at a sample ballot and there's no one to vote for in Shorewood.

Yet we're fighting for election privileges in the rest of the world. Maybe that's where we should go if we want to vote, perhaps go to Iraq?

But I can go to the election booth and cast one vote, either on the Repub or Demo side and that would be for a hundred years of war or a similar time to balance the budget and come up with another surplus. By that time, our outer space exploration for oil will put us in petroleum heaven.

I'm for long range planning but a hundred years?  However, I don't expect to be around during that last half of those hundred years. My young golfing doctors will be too old for me and especially as they begin to show signs of uncured rheumatism and back pains.

One hundred years? Heaven?  If I have to leave this heaven here in Shorewood and go to the one up there or out there, (you can't see where I'm pointing), I have the same question that others have had before me. Will I be in a place where I can see the lake and the sun rise there as I do here?

 I'd love to be a sculptor or finish that 1000-page novel. I hope that I'm not assigned the task of planning for a suburb like Shorewood.  One hundred years of that would be . . .  well, it might send me to my grave.