Quote of the Day

The estimable Christopher Hitchens wryly asks "what normal person would put up with the inane indignities of the electoral process?" They wouldn't. Hence, the sorry slate of candidates now before us.

In New York, a rather shopworn son of one Democratic dynasty (Andrew Cuomo) is "facing off," as people like to say, against a provincial thug (Carl Paladino) with a line in pseudo-tough talk. In California, where the urgent question of something suspiciously like state failure is staring the electorate in the face, the Brown-Whitman contest hasn't yet risen even to the level of the trivial.

Heh. Hitch is da Man.