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Venal US Rep Tom DeLay’s (forced) retirement speech exhibits the kind of hubris for which the heroes of Greek drama were routinely struck down by the gods, or at least metamorphosed into less convenient forms like trees and whatnot. His continued life, and even his continued possession of a human shape, is one more piece of evidence for the non-existence of a just deity, in case one more was needed.

In other Vote Freshman news, the California Republican Party has managed to find perhaps the only eligible human being not preferable to Feinstein as her opponent. This Mountjoy fellow has gone on the record as favoring the continuing in force/re-enactment of the entire so-called PATRIOT Act, among other things… even Feinstein, given a chance to let portions of the Act die, recanted her earlier wholesale abandonment of the Constitution.

I believe the correct strategy in a case like this (similar in many ways to the 2004 Presidential election) is to choose another candidate at random. The noble stratagem of Vote Freshman becomes the desperate ploy of Vote Random Nutjob, which is sad.