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The US elections are over.
Suddenly you have so much time on your hands.
What are you going to do?
What about your daily fix of polls and punditry?
You’ve spent months worrying that he wouldn’t get elected, that he would get cheated, or worse.
You’ve grown accustomed to her fragmented verbiage, illogic, winking, and faux-folksy ignorance.
Your life seems so empty without that daily jolt of vitriol and adrenaline. You need help.

Photo: Koosi in post-election funk

At Slate, Farhad Manjoo offers suggestions on How to kill time on the web now that the election’s over. “Follow the financial crisis. The presidential race might be over, but news junkies looking for a fix are in luck—the economy looks sure to provide months of daily excitement. Of course there are many mainstream sources, but the Web abounds with smart bloggers who follow the financial crisis with the sort of precinct-by-precinct detail you’ve come to expect of election news. . .”

At the NYT, Skinny Black Guy novelist Colson Whitehead ruminates on the election of a Skinny Black Guy.

Or you could repudiate Sarah Palin by reading about something really important and beneficial: fruit fly research. Begin with geneticist Jerry Coyne’s essay in The Edge. “The flies are models for disease, too, producing possibilities for curing epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and, yes, one of Palin’s favorite causes, autism.” I kid you not.