Used to be odd

Old newspaper and radio features poked fun at absurd elections. Somebody ran a wooden cigar store Indian against a judge, and the Indian won. President Atchison slept through his entire (one-day) term in a drunken stupor. Weird stuff!

Now most of Congress is like President Atchison. If they actually died we wouldn’t know the difference. In today’s primary, Tom Kean won the R ticket in New Jersey. He may be dead. One reporter asked a Kean assistant if a phone call is possible, and the assistant said “There are no phones where Mr Kean is.”