Well, here it is, 1983, so it won't be long before you start reading a lot
of boring stories about people like Vance Hartke. Hartke is a governor or
mayor or something from one of the flatter states, and the reason you'll be
reading about him is that he's one of the 50 top contenders for the 1984
Democratic presidential nomination. These men will spend the next 18 months
going around the country engaging in the most degrading activities imaginable,
such as wearing idiot hats and appearing on "Meet the Press". "Meet the
Press" is one of those Sunday morning public interest shows that the public
is not the least bit interested in. It features a panel of reporters who
ask questions of a guest politician, who wins an Amana home freezer if he
can get through the entire show without answering a single question.
-- Dave Barry
He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience like a guy
who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those
boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at
high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one
of those boxes with a pinhole in it....
