Oh, how it pays to be one of the beautiful people. Just this morning, I blew $25 in fees because the pin on my prepaid credit card was supposedly invalid. Then, there were the three times when my credit card was frozen for going places my bank didn’t want me to go. After the first time, I learned my lesson and procured permission at two levels from the bank, but they decided I really shouldn’t go to LA after getting as far as the middle of the Mojave Desert. I know. I need to stop whining and see how I am more secyouwer to perish from thirst or begin a life as a gypsy with my abductors – than to challenge the power structure’s delusions that I will turn into a terrorist once I cross over the Arizona line.

What does this have to do with North Carolina? Well, somebody has been writing unsigned checks to people with misspelled names and depositing them in the same bank account. If a law-abiding citizen tried to deposit a legitimate check with a booboo, they’d be bouncing checks all over tarnation while the bank got good and ready to inform them that the routine check had a technical error, and then they would have to wait a month for their employer to get around to re-issuing a corrected check.

What is even sweller, the checks, totaling around $50,000, came from the Macon County Board of Elections office.