News Round-Up

Aw hell, nothing's worth the effort, not even events w/ which I could tangentially involve myself*, Richard "Kinky" "Big Dick" Friedman having garnered enough votes to force a run-off for Ag Commish in the Tejas Democratic primary yesterday being one such event. Good for him, even if chances aren't.

[A] Republican is heavily favored to win the general election.

Friedman has run for office in the Lone Star State several times before, including for the same position in 2010. Then he also made the cut for a runoff before losing the ultimate battle for the nomination.

Or,

[a pause as coffee is made]

... something else but I went & made a cuppa joe, forgot whatever idiocy it was & now it seems twice as trivial.

---

*That possibility obliging me to note stuff, that sense of obligation leading to resentment of imposition, which leads to this pathetic self-analysis & good-bye readers. As if we care about eyeballs, this being a labor of (mostly self-) love & all.