Miller "Refudiated"

Not much good news in yesterday's election--except the likely defeat of Joe Miller and a victory for masturbation in Delaware.
The country took a giant step backward, and Alaska certainly did its part by returning a criminal to the House and Big Oil stooges to the Senate and Governor's Mansion.

The perennial re-election of Rep. Don Young continues to mystify me. The man spent most of his last term fighting corruption charges. Famous for his rude, boorish demeanor, Young rarely speaks to the press except in terse, enigmatic blurbs that he characteristically refuses to explain. The latest is his proclaiming the Gulf oil spill to be a "natural" rather than man-made phenomenon. Apparently, what we witnessed was an exploding oil rig as it exists in nature.

At least, we seem to have shown Joe Miller that he's not in Kansas anymore, or wherever the hell it may be that handcuffing journalists is a winning campaign tactic. We unleashed Sarah Palin on the world, but, hopefully, we've announced that Alaska has not put out a welcome mat for every right-wingnut trying to start a political career.