
Things that should disqualify anyone from running for public office
1. Having assets in wife's/ husband's/ children's names as a tax dodge. 2. Insisting on a driver when he/she is perfectly capable of driving him/herself. 3. Demanding an expense account to take the family to meetings overseas that could easily have been a 20-minute Skype instead. 4. Claiming rent allowance for staying in the house owned by your wife (also, see #1). 5. Wobbly jowls. 6. Having never known what it's like to be down to your last $20 with a week until pay day and

There's no reason in this season
Seems like every Christmas someone trots out stories about an ancient (between 1000 and 1500 years old, so the definition of ancient has become a little fuzzy) Bible being found in Turkey that tells us Christ wasn't crucified (but ascended alive into Heaven while Judas was crucified in his place -- because the Romans weren't paying attention to a whole human-sized UFO apparently, and all Jews looked the same to them) and Barnabas was a beloved disciple of JC (instead of just