I know I don't talk politics much on here, in the interest of preserving some kind of peace and sanity.

But I have to make (yet another) comment on the Blagojevich mess: today, I heard on the radio that he was comparing himself to Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gandhi.

I think we need some kind of reverse form of Godwin's Law: if a person who is very likely a scoundrel* compares himself or herself to any of those individuals, he or she automatically loses.

(*Or even is not likely a scoundrel, though I think it's almost the very depths of bathos** to compare oneself to Martin Luther King, Jr. (The VERY depths would be to say, "I'm just like Jesus, man! Just like Jesus!" [and after hearing someone make such a statement, I would very rapidly step away from them, for fear of being unintended collateral damage of the thunderbolt I would expect to follow]))

(** I am not quite sure that is the right word - I am thinking of something designed to tug the emotional heartstrings but purely inappropriate, like someone who was passed over for a promotion at work because they were a slacker comparing themselves to, say, Joan of Arc, who was burned at the stake)

Wow, two things deserving of the "ewwww" tag in one day...