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What'll you wish for the next time the clock reads 11:11?
Beer. 5 (50%)
Buffalo wings. 3 (30%)
Another minute to decide. 2 (20%)
Posted on 01.16.200610 total votes

What keeps making you feel so hollow inside?
Money. 10 (55.56%)
Fame. 3 (16.67%)
Hate mail. 5 (27.78%)
Posted on 11.21.200518 total votes

Bosses should be
respected. 1 (14.29%)
killed. 1 (14.29%)
tortured, then killed. 5 (71.43%)
Posted on 11.08.20057 total votes

Shoop.
shoop it oop 0 (0%)
oop it oop 1 (100%)
oop it oop it oop 0 (0%)
Posted on 11.08.20051 total votes

Which would you rather give up forever, today?
Cigs. 18 (54.55%)
Beer. 8 (24.24%)
Sex. 7 (21.21%)
Posted on 09.19.200533 total votes

Glube wine?
Yes. 1 (9.09%)
What is it? 6 (54.55%)
Yes! 4 (36.36%)
Posted on 09.09.200511 total votes

Kati, what do you think?
Don't know. 3 (33.33%)
Don't care. 1 (11.11%)
The third axiom in Trianomical Sensitivity Training is: my lord, keep your fucking questions out of my head. 5 (55.56%)
Posted on 08.31.20059 total votes

Horoscopes are:
Fun. 7 (53.85%)
Stupid. 3 (23.08%)
Dangerous. 3 (23.08%)
Posted on 08.23.200513 total votes

Of course John Roberts. Because...
Roe v. Wade's gotten a little old, baby. 3 (20%)
He's only fifty, giving him a good thirty to thirty-five years to fillet the Constitution. 4 (26.67%)
That there's a plush, respectable, American name. Almost forefatherish. 8 (53.33%)
Posted on 08.01.200515 total votes

I don't have any more of these poll questions in me.
Okay. 6 (26.09%)
That sucks. 15 (65.22%)
Okay! 2 (8.7%)
Posted on 07.25.200523 total votes

Which way do you wipe?
From the back. 11 (68.75%)
From the front. 3 (18.75%)
In a sort of swirling motion. 2 (12.5%)
Posted on 07.12.200516 total votes

Smoking is...
Good. 5 (41.67%)
Evil. 2 (16.67%)
Better than a vomitous belch by a wooly fat guy in an unwashed green tank top. 5 (41.67%)
Posted on 07.07.200512 total votes

_____ is the hardest kind of work.
Thinking 3 (21.43%)
Sweating 5 (35.71%)
Getting by without thinking or sweating 6 (42.86%)
Posted on 06.27.200514 total votes

Computer lab monitors are usually:
Helpful. 5 (41.67%)
Good lookin. 3 (25%)
Straight-line descendants from...shit, you know...that one guy. He masterminded the cold-blooded murder of all those people not that long ago. 4 (33.33%)
Posted on 06.17.200512 total votes

What's your favorite summer pastime?
Texas hold 'em strategies. 2 (22.22%)
Win big at on-line poker. 1 (11.11%)
Free poker chips with purchase. 6 (66.67%)
Posted on 06.08.20059 total votes

How much to change your name to Billie Thong?
A hundred bucks. 0 (0%)
A thousand simolians. 2 (14.29%)
That is my name, Jack. 12 (85.71%)
Posted on 05.19.200514 total votes

Sex...
in the morning. 6 (46.15%)
in the evening. 2 (15.38%)
when-the-fuck-ever, as long as we can use the back door. 5 (38.46%)
Posted on 05.13.200513 total votes

Just can't wait for:
Friday. 8 (36.36%)
Summer. 9 (40.91%)
Sweet mother death. 5 (22.73%)
Posted on 04.19.200522 total votes

My balls are always bouncing:
To the left. 11 (61.11%)
To the right. 2 (11.11%)
Secksyst pigg! 5 (27.78%)
Posted on 03.28.200518 total votes

I feel useful:
All the time. 3 (23.08%)
Never. 0 (0%)
Once in a blue fucking moon. 10 (76.92%)
Posted on 03.21.200513 total votes

Fuck:
You. 6 (19.35%)
Me. 7 (22.58%)
It. 18 (58.06%)
Posted on 03.04.200531 total votes

A cig tax hike of a dollar per pack is being proposed in Wisconsin. How would you rather see the state find the money?
Gas tax hike of a dollar per gallon. 2 (8%)
Charge a buck to get from the suburbs to the cities. Call it an asshole tax. 10 (40%)
Charge a buck to use the word "God" in a deferential way in public. 13 (52%)
Posted on 02.12.200525 total votes

Non-smokers are dancing because:
They can, Loser, because they never started that stupid, disgusting, filthy habit. 4 (40%)
They shouldn't have to lug around the "This is Your Cancerous Lung" photo album too much longer. 1 (10%)
They finally belong. 5 (50%)
Posted on 02.07.200510 total votes

Technophobia is:
A healthy response to an ever chilling world. 7 (36.84%)
Silly, but harmless. 2 (10.53%)
Bound to draw negative attention from the new robot lords. 10 (52.63%)
Posted on 01.28.200519 total votes

My college education:
Taught me a lot and helped me get a job. 6 (37.5%)
Prepared me for nothing. 6 (37.5%)
I'm not the college type. 4 (25%)
Posted on 01.09.200516 total votes

To uncover new music, please insert:
friend w/ burner. 8 (36.36%)
community radio playlist. 11 (50%)
album review page. 3 (13.64%)
Posted on 12.15.200422 total votes

Homophobia has its roots in:
Insecurity about one's own sexual identity. 8 (32%)
The bully mentality. 9 (36%)
A natural fear of Catholic priests. 8 (32%)
Posted on 11.23.200425 total votes

A Jesus Freak is...
Someone who looks like Jesus did. 2 (6.9%)
Someone who loves like Jesus did. 5 (17.24%)
Someone who preaches like Jesus didn't. 22 (75.86%)
Posted on 11.07.200429 total votes

Who're the freaks?
The kids with the facial jewelry. 2 (8.33%)
The bearded ladies. 2 (8.33%)
Those in possession of one or more Bush/Cheney stickers. 20 (83.33%)
Posted on 10.22.200424 total votes

By and large, Americans most closely resemble:
Jesus. 3 (12.5%)
Judas. 11 (45.83%)
Billy Bob Thornton in "Sling Blade." 10 (41.67%)
Posted on 10.05.200424 total votes

What does Florida have to thank for Charley, Frances, Ivan and now Jeanne?
new badass weather patterns 1 (16.67%)
their own lack of faith in the lord 1 (16.67%)
the Chinese government 4 (66.67%)
Posted on 09.27.20046 total votes

If George Bush is re-elected on November 2, I may just have to:
Discharge my firearms into the air. Forty-three times. 1 (5.26%)
Join the revolution. 8 (42.11%)
Call in and get waaaaasssted. 10 (52.63%)
Posted on 09.08.200419 total votes

Should American gymnast Paul Hamm give up his gold medal?
Yes. 7 (50%)
No. 6 (42.86%)
Who's that now? 1 (7.14%)
Posted on 08.23.200414 total votes

Should an international observer group be brought in to monitor this fall's American elections?
Yes. 9 (50%)
No. 5 (27.78%)
There aren't going to be any elections. 4 (22.22%)
Posted on 08.10.200418 total votes

At best, national politics are...
The key to a civically virtuous life. Everyone should get actively involved. 6 (31.58%)
Entertaining, and useful as a tool to keep the mind sharp. 9 (47.37%)
A repugnant distraction. 4 (21.05%)
Posted on 07.26.200419 total votes

The crackhead at the corner bar who cleans tables and ashtrays in exchange for the occasional free beer ought to...
Get a real job. 1 (11.11%)
Rob the bar, pass Go, and go directly to jail. 1 (11.11%)
Stop calling me "Son," at least in public places. 7 (77.78%)
Posted on 07.21.20049 total votes

On July 6, George W Bush turned 58. Three days later, Donald Rumsfeld turned 74. We should all kick in and get them...
Scratch 'n sniff stickers of barnyard animals for Bush and for Rumsfeld, the new Modest Mouse. 2 (22.22%)
Circus tickets for Bush and for Rumsfeld, a pink Speedo swimsuit. 3 (33.33%)
A pigman baby for Bush and for Rumsfeld, a full-back tattoo of Dr. Octopus. 4 (44.44%)
Posted on 07.18.20049 total votes

For the most part, I hear about the world, learn about the world...
from the print media and public radio. 11 (52.38%)
from the networks and cable and movies. 1 (4.76%)
through the grapevine. 9 (42.86%)
Posted on 06.30.200421 total votes

In my humble opinion...
Bosses become a**holes. 3 (42.86%)
A**holes become bosses. 3 (42.86%)
How dare you! Disparaging the apex of my backside in this way...At least Blak Glorry knows when to shut the f*ck up! 1 (14.29%)
Posted on 06.24.20047 total votes

If I could go back and erase all the _____ I've ever done, I would.
...looking at television... 20 (66.67%)
...drinking beer... 3 (10%)
...fiddling with myself... 7 (23.33%)
Posted on 05.28.200430 total votes

In my opinion, the first two-plus years of America's Crusade to root out Terror have:
Helped make the world a substantially safer place to live. 0 (0%)
Helped make the world more dangerous than ever. 3 (75%)
Done neither of the above. But it's cool to have mortal enemies again. 1 (25%)
Posted on 05.26.20044 total votes

How you be.
Had fun. 6 (15.38%)
Having fun. 13 (33.33%)
Fun just called, told me to expect her shortly. 20 (51.28%)
Posted on 03.24.200439 total votes

Where is the line?
I have never sold myself, or any part of myself, and I never will. 6 (35.29%)
I have sold plasma, or I would, if I really needed the money. 8 (47.06%)
I have, and will continue to sell anything - sperm/eggs, kidneys, a night with myself - to the highest bidder, or the only bidder, or whatever. 3 (17.65%)
Posted on 03.10.200417 total votes

This best describes my drinking tendencies:
Don't drink much - no big deal 14 (37.84%)
Drink a lot - no big deal 15 (40.54%)
Drink a lot - other people think it's a big deal 8 (21.62%)
Posted on 01.29.200437 total votes

God is...
Dead, or never existed. 7 (29.17%)
Alive, small but ubiquitous, in every flower and every grain of sand and even every molecule of piss and vinegar. 13 (54.17%)
A terrible horrible mixed-up bastard, drunk off a bottle of Power and one of Hyper-Consciousness. 4 (16.67%)
Posted on 01.06.200424 total votes

If you were stranded on a desert island, alone, for the foreseeable future, which would you rather find washed up in a crate on the beach one morning?
banjo, harmonica, and a wide-ranging series of books by the world's greatest unknown authors 17 (40.48%)
some notebooks and pens, a stereo equipped with a solar generator, and audio cassettes of every movie soundtracks ever produced 9 (21.43%)
all manner of booze and drugs, a folding chair, and a garbage bag full of fresh Virginian tobacco 16 (38.1%)
Posted on 11.11.200342 total votes

What would you do if you suddenly found that your bank had erroneously credited your account with$75,000?
alert the bank immediately and have the situation rectified 12 (30.77%)
withdraw the money immediately and flee to Mexico 18 (46.15%)
consult either your priest or your lawyer 9 (23.08%)
Posted on 10.04.200339 total votes

The Biggest Crook on the loose in America is most probably lurking:
in a dark alley 3 (9.38%)
in a corporate boardroom 9 (28.13%)
in or near the White House 20 (62.5%)
Posted on 09.20.200332 total votes

Which of the following publishing schedules would you prefer to see used in A Common Sense?
Publish an issue every 2 months (current format) 4 (11.11%)
Publish an issue every month 12 (33.33%)
Publish articles as they are submitted 20 (55.56%)
Posted on 07.23.200336 total votes

 
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