NP: Mike Keneally, hat. (in my head)

I wonder if Jack Ryan deliberately announced he was dropping out of the race right at the beginning of the Cubs-Sox game so that WGN wouldn't be able to cover it. I think the Tribune was one of the parties trying so hard to unseal the divorce records, but there's no way in hell they break away from Comiskey Park U.S. Cellular.

The thing that strikes me as amusing about this whole thing is how utterly irrelevant it is. Ryan was going to get decimated in November. Part of me wonders if, given the current poll numbers, the GOP was somehow complicit in the scandal getting out in order to get a better candidate in the race. Not that it would work. I don't think a reincarnated Gipper, patron saint of the East-West Tollway, would stand a chance against Barack Obama.

As an Illinois voter, the allegations didn't bother me on the level of pure sensationalism, or inappropriate prurience, or whatever. The reason this would have turned me off is that the guy is already married to Jeri Ryan, for god's sake, and wants to rub our noses in it by having sex with her in front of us? And by "us," I don't mean all of us, unless we've all been going to these sex clubs. Because then it really wouldn't be a scandal at all, would it?

Thumbs up to wonkette for the Dungeons & Dragons dig in her story update. Well played!