Ugly Juice Endorses Franken for Senate

Have you all read Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them? If not, I suggest you drop what you are doing right now, and run to your local library and pick up a copy. Yes, run! Minneapolis Public Libraries have 19 copies available. It is just so great and gut-splittingly funny. I remember now the joy I felt when I read his book, Why Not Me? The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency. Incidently, this sharply contrasts with the complete lack of joy I felt recently reading the book, The Devil's Highway, which was the true story of 26 Mexican immigrants who tried to enter the U.S. through the portion of the Arizona desert known as "The Devil's Highway." Their coyote/guide became lost and disoriented and they wandered around for days in over 100-degree heat without water--most of them died, some were eventually found and saved. Though it was a fascinating story, the book was so poorly written, I wondered if the author intended to make the reader feel the desolation and agony that must have been felt by those poor walkers in the desert. I wanted to just close the book and throw up, but then I felt like I was abandoning the migrants, myself. So I suffered through the whole thing. It wasn't even a very long book. I'm so glad it's over. I also just read Atonement, recommended by Summra and Sarah. I guess I liked it, but I thought the ending was kind of hokey. (Not what happened, but how the story was told). But yeah, I liked it. I'd say more, but I don't want to ruin it for anyone else who might pick it up.

Back to the Franken endorsement. I'm not sure if he has OFFICIALLY announced that he's running for Senate in 2008, but he's talking about it. And he's looking at property in Minnesota, and Air America might relocate to Minnesota. That's so peachy for us. I think Franken is an honest and good person, and I think as a politician, because he is independently famous and has gained a reputation as a stickler for accuracy, could be immune to some of the b.s. and fact-spinning that plagues Washington politics. He's astute and articulate and tuned in. Maybe Ugly Juice will send him an official certificate of endorsement?

Anyhoo, I am enjoying the book so much, I am going to stop blogging now, and get back to reading it.