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Derrick, just when I think I've got you figured out, you do this. U ^^0|2 1337 7#4|\| i.

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My forty-year-old memory disputes you. My current incarnation cannot argue.

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What I want to know is who the fuck is Anne Arundel, and why was she fucking this guy's catheter in a back seat somewhere?

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That is, actually, wonderful/

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Possibly. I'm not a Marylander, but the only way I would have missed Spiro is if my sights were off.

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There's a sidebar?

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Fuck no he doesn't. This is important to me.

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Being recently 65, I'm not sure I agree with you in detail. While I'm sadly aware that I'm not quite as mentally agile as I was forty years ago, I also have forty more years of experience that I think make me, generally, a better person.

Now, I realize that at my age, I could also start to go down the tubes tomorrow. So some concern about age is reasonable. But I think the main thing is to put an upper limit on years in elected office.

I'm not a big fan of most existing term limits laws, because I think the limits are too tight. In Cali, after our "reform", one person can serve a maximum of 12 years in the state legislature (Assembly or Senate). I think that is too short. Analogizing from my life in corporate America, it takes you a year to figure out where the rest room is, and a couple of years to identify the relevant parties.

Now, I do appreciate that power corrupts, so my personal term limit concept would be a total of twenty, or maybe twenty-five, years in elective office. This would include dog-catcher (if elected), sheriff, council-person, county supervisor, state legislator, state-wide officer, Congressmember, Senator, VP, Pres, and any other elective position. This would be much easier to monitor than bird certificates, and while I don't claim it would <i>eliminate</i> corruption (nothing can eliminate corruption), it would at least put an upper limit on it.

It's not age, it's time in office.

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Beats the hell out of some company Christmas parties I've been to.

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Around his neck, yes?

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Stamina? You think that would be 45 minutes of straight copulation? I'm thinking a guy who obviously has a thing for catheters probably has ways to fill the time.

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i love you cally but please.

we have two governors sitting in prison as i type (though rumor has it george is getting out soon...). we have a convicted felon running for jesse's replacement and we have rahm well, being rahm.

and that's just january.

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"rest of us are just Holograms"

Back from the Shadows again !

Out where an In-jun's your friend!

Where the veg'tables are green,

And you can pee into the stream!

Yes, we're back from the Shadows again!

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right? mel reynolds. our very own rapey rhodes scholar.

got a pardon from slippery bill in 2001.

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Players being played....

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Is this the screenplay for the next John Waters film?

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