My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.


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The backseat produced the sexual revolution.
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Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fr...
JERRY RUBIN
No belief runs more counter to experience than the belief in a benevolent god.
MARTY RUBIN
Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Now that I've relinquished my fantasies of all the people I wish I could be, and stopped feeling gui...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. P...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limi...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
At 15, I started listening to hard rock and heavy metal, but I would say it was more hard rock becau...
RICK RUBIN
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that th...
RICK RUBIN
When Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's government fell in May 1940, the nation turned to Chur...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
I'm a compulsive note-taker, and I used to feel self-conscious about pulling out my little noteb...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Getting paperwork under control makes me feel more in control of my life generally.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Work done by other people sounds easy. How hard can it be to take care of a newborn who sleeps 20 ho...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
We need to have intimate, enduring bonds; we need to be able to confide; we need to feel that we bel...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
I have a lucky perfume. I love beautiful smells, but I save one of my favorite perfumes to wear only...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Don't let yourself fall into 'empty.' Keep cash in the house. Keep gas in your tank. Kee...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketch...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and fu...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outco...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Each week, I post a video about some 'Pigeon of Discontent' raised by a reader. Because, as ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
A 'treat' is different from a 'reward,' which must be justified or earned. A treat i...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of thos...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
One thing I wish I could tell my younger self: take photos of everyday life, not special occasions; ...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I f...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habi...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable y...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Working is one of the most dangerous forms of procrastination.
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; t...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you...
RICK RUBIN
No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was l...
GRETCHEN RUBIN
I know how to make myself happy, but I don't know how to make you happy.
MARTY RUBIN