Grrrrrrr - Four years ago,

Grrrrrrr - Four years ago, I ran for Minnesota State Treasurer on the Libertarian ticket. The website from that bid is still floating around the 'net.

Oh, I know. Quit laughing.

My only campaign promise; abolish the office of state treasurer. Of course, there was a ballot initiative that year to do exactly the same thing. That initiative passed, resoundingly. I considered this a victory (along with the fact that I got 36,000 votes - which was about 35,500 more than I expected). The victory was sort of post-ironic - the citizens of Minnesota didn't need a politician to abolish their deadwood office for them, and you can't get more libertarian than that!

Now, the House has voted to retain this unnecessary and antiquated position - as an appointed job.

This is idiotic. I'm writing my representative (not that writing Alice Hausman is good for much of anything), and you ought to as well. The will of the voters is not only being flouted, but in such a way as to maximize the office's use as a spoil of political victory rather than state accountability.

Fame and Fortuyn, Part II - More on the Pim Fortuyn the media doesn't want you to get to know.

This ties into so many things we've touched on in this blog, it's enough to make one's head explode. There's angles on media bias, the hatred that drives so many liberals, terrorism, the west's responses to terror - it just keeps coming.

I'll try to find some time this weekend to write about it all. Wake the kids!