We Don't Care.

There has been a posting hiatus here at G&S since the end of last week for several, not necessarily independent, reasons.

First, the primary political topics of the day (the elections in NJ, VA, ballot questions in Cali., Scooter Libby, Jacques Chirac having his own "My Little Goat" experience, etc., etc.) strike me as so profoundly boring as to bring on terminal ennui if actually addressed.

The governor's chair in New Jersey will be bought by the fellow who is more astonishingly wealthy than the other guy, who is merely eye-poppingly rich. He will take office, nothing interesting will happen, then someone will be indicted.

The governor's chair in Virginia will go to someone or other whose name you'll forget within 18 months of his leaving office, unless he runs for the Senate (and wins). Whoever that is, he will not be nearly as ugly as the incumbent.

Libby will be convicted for having lied unconvincingly about a crime no one committed. Or he'll be acquitted.

The ballot questions in California will likely be voted down, because the voters can't be convinced that there's not a hidden political gotcha that they're being tricked into buying. We think they're probably wrong, but what the Hell, it's their state. If they don't care, why should we?

Chirac and the French are getting what they deserve for being the arrogant, immoral, duplicitous scum that the French have always been. The United States should sponsor a UN resolution calling for France to set a timetable for withdrawing from Paris. All reconstruction contracts should be awarded to Halliburton.

Boring.