In his most recent op-ed for The Huffington Post, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David described his waking nights worrying about a McCain / Palin presidency. Naturally David’s particular brand of humor must be taken with a grain of salt, but there really is a truth buried deep inside his commentary. The country is anxious, nervous, jittery. The next (almost) 2 weeks will be nerve-wracking for a lot of Americans, many of whom are losing their homes, their savings and their sanity worrying about whether we’ll have 4 more years of Bush-style leadership in the White House.

I can’t take much more of this. Two weeks to go, and I’m at the end of my rope. I can’t work. I can eat, but mostly standing up. I’m anxious all the time and taking it out on my ex-wife, which, ironically, I’m finding enjoyable. This is like waiting for the results of a biopsy. Actually, it’s worse. Biopsies only take a few days, maybe a week at the most, and if the biopsy comes back positive, there’s still a potential cure. With this, there’s no cure. The result is final. Like death.

Five times a day I’ll still say to someone, “I don’t know what I’m going to do if McCain wins.” Of course, the reality is I’m probably not going to do anything. What can I do? I’m not going to kill myself. If I didn’t kill myself when I became impotent for two months in 1979, I’m certainly not going to do it if McCain and Palin are elected, even if it’s by nefarious means.