Ladies and gentlemen, meet Bill Janklow (left). He's the present governor of South Dakota, and he just announced his intention to run for the House of Representatives. He has a bit of a sordid history with the Native American population in South Dakota (though careful about that source; it's probably a bit biased), and though his administrations have done some good, he himself has done quite a bit of harm... even if the rape charges are unsubstantiated, there is his habit of representing South Dakota as a state full of stupid rednecks in the regional press. And we're not. Mostly. But Janklow manages to keep appearing in the right press releases, and so his publicity ratings remain lodged in the political ceiling. Expect him to sweep both the caucus and the race in November that follows. C-SPAN will never be the same...

Rumors that Letterman would be replaced with Howard Stern? All right...

When I was doing the half-awake typing session Sunday night, I apparently typed up an excerpt from Farewell to Manzanar about war, peace, and chum. I'm going to wander off to bed, but I will leave you with that.