Current affairs

Apparently there's some sort of gubernatorial contest going on. It's hard to know who to vote for--the guy with the gay voice who hates homosexuals, or the shifty guy who says the other one can't be trusted. I could default to the independent candidate--and this is coming from someone who thinks third-party candidates are assholes--but his advertising campaign (click the "We Want Potts" link) suggests he's far too insane even for the job in question.

I find it a completely depressing sign of the state of political debate that Kilgore's strategy seems to consist entirely of giving Kaine the first name "Liberal" and that Kaine's is basically saying "Nuh-uh!"

I don't know where these bozos stand on anything, and I don't care. They're everything people hate about politics, completely dreary party hacks with zero personal appeal, and I'd rather be locked in a never-ending police ride-along with Amiri Baraka and Mark Holmberg than hear either of their names ever again (and I do wish they'd both stop robot-calling me). I will be voting, but only out of a severely overgrown sense of civic duty.

Is Terry Kilgore's mustache running? Now THERE's a candidate I could get behind.