O Democracy!

[infrogmation]

I think I'd like seeing Mike Gravel and Ron Paul as major party presidential nominees.

Yeah, and magical flying ponies for everyone.

Meanwhile, perhaps the most disrespectful obituary I've seen that deserves to be read in full:

Yeltsin: An Obit of a Drunken, Bloblike Train Wreck of a Revolutionary Leader by Matt Taibbi