A Thought Question

Is it wrong of me to vote against someone/something because there's an extraneous apostrophe in the signs supporting it?

(This question brought to you on account of today's town election in Brookline.)

In Which gnomi is a Musical Troublemaker

So mabfan and I met for lunch downtown (as is our usual pattern for Tuesday), and as we're walking back to the T along Tremont St., we pass a tour group being led by a woman in Colonial garb. Just as we pass, she starts leading them in song:

"My country, 'tis of thee/Sweet land of liberty/Of thee I sing."

As we pass, I sing -- not softly, but not loudly, either, and mabfan joins in -- "Send her victorious/Happy and glorious/Long to reign o'er us/God save the Queen."

We then sang the next stanza ("Oh, Lord our God arise/Scatter her enemies/And make them fall./Confound their politics/Frustrate their knavish tricks/On thee our hopes we fix/God save us all") as we headed across Park St. to the T.

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And now, the sign that prompted this morning's thought question:





The irony of it all is that one of the main foci of the funding hoped for under this question (a proposed override of Proposition 2 1/2) is earmarked for programs for Brookline public schools.