I am stuck in this morass of democratic disenchantment. To whom should my vote be cast for in a state senate race thus? An hard-line business-person who aligns herself with Chamber of Commerce/Republicans or the weak-sauce Obama-crat that has moved his family to the most expensive part of our local geography while claiming bona fides because his high school was in the economically depressed part of town.

He left them just as he will leave state senate as soon as he gets of whiff of possibility.

Neither of these people are going to do anything to change the privilege that they have received through their political grooming's nor their earthly "good works".

When I was not a house-husband I worked in various joints. One cube-farm I worked in had one dude that was never satisfied with his project's prestige. He was always looking to move up and out instead of working hard here and now to get ahead later. He was wads smarter than me. But I got a promotion ahead of him.

My manager told me it was because, "Joel is always standing on his desk to see if he can get a better job instead of just doing his. We value the work first."

And it seems that with politicians. They are all standing on their desks looking to see if they can view DC from there.

Please open your "The Wire" transcripts to season 5, episode 2, where State Delegate Odell Watkins asks Carcetti's cabinet member, "Doesn't this seem a little thin to you, running for governor two years into a four-year term?"

His cabinet member retorts, "Everything's thin. The whole world shines shit and calls it gold."