Monday, November 30, 2009

The Real World: Washington D.C.

I gotta thank Kole for introducing me to Mark Todd, a republican candidate for governor of Wisconsin. The guy is painful to listen to, stammering around about being comfortable talking to billionaires as well as "street people", but just as confusing in print -

Maintaining our religious freedom is extremely important. The phrase “separation of church and state” has misled many and does not give an accurate interpretation of what the First Amendment says. The prohibition of established religion has the purpose of preventing government-sponsored coercion of religious conscience. The First Amendment does not forbid all influence of religion on the public and the political system. Using authoritarian government power to force views that contradict religious conscience on issues such as abortion, abortifacient devices and drugs, and homosexuality is unacceptable.

The closest I can come to unraveling this messis, "Religious freedom is extremely important so the only valid government power is that which asserts the correct religious conscience which everyone is free to be forced to agree with." Eh?

But, hey, get this - while climbing out of the incomprehensible Escherian castle that is Mark Todd's brain, I find out that Sean Duffy of Real World: Boston is running against David Obey in Wisconsin's 7th district. He's inviting you to "Roll With Duffy" here, which I first interpreted as Duffy's attempt to be down with the young generation or maybe some allusion to 9/11 calls of "Let's Roll" but then realized that it is a reference to Duffy's log-rolling success in the lumberjack games. Either way, I'm just happy knowing that appearing on The Real World won't destroy someone's potential political career so CT and the Miz can run together on their Real World/Road Rules Challenge achievements.



At over six feet, weighing in at approximately 230 pounds, CT's one of the best players in the game. But when he's been boozing, all bets are off -- and this drunken lug has a history of hitting the bottle and looking for an excuse to throw the first punch.

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