Right Wing Nation

Yet another Republican candidate tosses in his hat for Peterson’s seat:

A Baptist pastor from Clarion became the ninth Republican to seek the 5th Congressional District nomination, saying Monday that he adds a voice of fiscal conservatism and a missing voice of moral convictions to the campaign.

Yeah, you read that right. Ninth. As in nine Republican candidates: Chris Exarchos, Lou Radkowski, Richard Schall, Glenn “G.T.” Thompson, Matt Shaner, Jeff Stroehmann, John Stroup and Derek Walker. I really thing that’s enough. I like choice, but come on. And last I heard, which was a couple of weeks ago, there were five Democrats.

If you’re thinking of running for Peterson’s seat, don’t. We have enough, thanks just the same.

Actually, we’re not the last in the nation. I found a schedule over at Realclearpolitics. W denotes winner-take-all. C denotes a closed primary. The schedule is long, so it’s below the fold.

The latest howler from the public schools: Middle school issues ban on intentional flatulence. Normally, I’d include an excerpt, but this really needs no additional explanation. The headline says it all.

Hilarious, or just idiotic?

Ours may be the last in the nation, not until April 22. With all these advanced primaries, and the campaign having started way earlier than it should have, I’m starting to wonder if we’ll have more than one candidate on the primary ballot.

I’m pretty skeptical about network TV, so I tend to be pretty resistant to “You have to see this show!” When it comes to network TV, we nearly always discover something at least a season after it’s on (Lost, for example).

You may recall all of the furor about Jericho last year. CBS (I think — I don’t need to pay attention to what channel anything is on because I have TiVO) canceled it after only eleven episodes, and there was so much outrage that they agreed to bring it back on.

I never saw a single episode, but there were lots of other dextrosphere bloggers who were nuts about it (particularly gun bloggers). Still, there was that Showtime Western series everybody was crazy about, and I wasn’t impressed. But all of the talk about Jericho did make me curious.

I TiVod an episode recap, and watched it. I’m hooked — and I still haven’t seen an episode. That’s a first. Show takes place in a small Kansas town, Jericho. Nuclear warheads hit all US cities, and Jericho is cut off. Jericho competes with other surrounding small towns for resources, and there’s some mysterious paramilitary group. There’s also a mysterious character who knows more about what happened than anyone else. Others may call it post-apocalyptic. I call it Cold War, cause, well, it has everything from when I was growing up. Nuclear attacks. Fallout and fallout shelters. Everything except the TV tone, test pattern, and “This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test.” Actually, there’s no TV either, since all of the stations and the infrastructure have been nuked. We don’t know who dropped the nukes. We don’t know what’s left. The world has suddenly shrunk to Jericho and the surrounding area.

One of the big Jericho nuts is Bitter, who posted a link to all of the existing episodes online. The first season is also available on DVD, and the Sci-Fi Channel is broadcasting the first season episodes.

Jericho starts up on February 12. I’ll be watching.