We Miss You Already, Conrad

How do you top the most graceless political loss in recent history? If you're Crazy Conrad Burns, you emerge in Washington a week later muttering nonsense, making weird threats to Robert Byrd, yelling at reporters and chasing your soon-to-be unemployed staffers up the Capitol Dome like some Phantom of the Opera in an ill-fitting cowboy hat.

Burns is so psychotic that it took a 300-pound seven-fingered dirt farmer with a flattop to bring normalcy back to Montana's junior Senate seat.

 Burns takes young staffers on rare tour of U.S. Capitol dome [Great Falls Tribune]