Who has the nuttiest mayor in America?

Philadelphia has a new mayor. He’s Michael Nutter, whose surname should open up a Pandora’s Box of wordplay if he turns out to be a loser. He’s a Democrat, which means that in order to be elected, all he really had to do was put his name on the ballot. Mother Teresa could run Republican against Adolph Hitler and they’d still have a race on their hands.
As expected, the turnout was dismal. He was elected by 85 percent of the 30 percent of registered voters who voted. They call it a landslide, but in a city with 1.5 million people, the 225,000 votes that Nutter got don’t really amount to much. On the other hand, as a Democrat, he really didn't need much.
As of May 2007, there are 993,334 registered voters in Philadelphia.

Democrat: 750,829 (75.6%)

Republican: 150,450 (15.2%)

Other parties: 92,055 (9.2%)

As you can see, the only way a Democrat could lose the election in Philadelphia … well, a Democrat really couldn’t lose an election, which is why I’m in a "wait and see" mode on Nutter. That’s enough politics. It is fun to say Nutter, though. Go ahead. You know you want to. Nutter.

Did I mention politics? No? Well, this isn't really politics, it's more like stupid stuff he said.

WASHINGTON - President Bush, personally intervening in the political crisis in Pakistan, told President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday he must hold parliamentary elections soon and step down as army leader.
"You can't be the president and the head of the military at the same time," Bush said, describing a 20-minute telephone call with Musharraf. "I had a very frank discussion with him."

Really? You can't be president and head of the military too? How does that whole "Commander in Chief" thing work, George? [Just wondering]. It probably took twenty seconds to say that, and the rest of the twenty minutes to explain it to Musharraf.

I think it's fascinating that we have such a huge ego as a nation that we can tell other countries how we think they should run things. It might be nice once in a while for another country to walk in here and tell us that we might not want to run a $163 billion deficit, keep millions of people in poverty (or below), have huge numbers of people without adequate health care, fund a war that most Americans don't understand or want, turn children out of our education system without the basics and ... oh, I don't know ... generally allow corporate America and their affiliated lobbyists to ... oh, I don't know ... run the country.

Anyone? Bueller ... Or, maybe they tell us and we don't listen. That's possible.

On a lighter note, Hollywood is on strike. If you're curious as to what the issues are, watch this short video that was made by some of the writers of The Office. If not, then don't.