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Any "best" list containing books published this year, doesn't seem worth voting on. Very self-serving, and shameful.

The right to vote (as well as the right of refraining from voting) is the basic human right. It goes together with the right of voting for whom and what you want with everyone free to express their opinion and with the majority deciding the popular winner. That is the core of democracy. Any attempt of limiting any of the above mentioned criteria is direct violation of the above mentioned rights.

To my friends here, I want to tell a story that happened right here in Armenia. You see, our political processes are yet to reach the level that I would call satisfactory with a lot of the elections pitting decoys of the same political power against each other. It goes like the infamous tagline to the Aliens versus Predator abomination of a film: whoever wins we lose. So, without wishing to give up my right of vote I did go to the polling station. I took the ballot with the names of similarly unbecoming candidates and, after a second of consideration, wrote down the name of the person who was good in dealing with the authoriatian regimes like the one we have the misfortune of dealing with. The name was James Bolivar DiGriz - the badass hero of the Stainless Steel Rat novels by Harry Harrison. Did he get elected? Unfortunately - no. But I still made my choice and gave my vote for what I believed was the best option.

Vardan wrote: "The right to vote (as well as the right of refraining from voting) is the basic human right. It goes together with the right of voting for whom and what you want with everyone free to express their..."

Sounds like the US. There's not much on this page to impress me.

Greg wrote: "Vardan wrote: "The right to vote (as well as the right of refraining from voting) is the basic human right. It goes together with the right of voting for whom and what you want with everyone free t..."

the whole world is becoming increasingly similar and not in a good way...feel free to add your favorites to the list btw