Inappropriate Content: The Trail©

I came in early today, put on the TV, and happened to jump in the middle of the Van Dam-Bennett debates, provided by KBYU. Woah! Utah still exists, now that I've left. Freaky.

Bob Bennett is Utah's junior senator, second to Orrin Hatch in both seniority and evil. At one point in the debate, he reminded us that every single senator in the history of the state has served until they were either defeated or died; in one case, a senator was appointed to the Supreme Court. Bennett promised to retire voluntarily, which shows just how seriously he's taking his opponent this year, Paul Van Dam.

Paul Van Dam looks, physically, a bit like Sean Connery. Unfortunately, he looks like Sean Connery playing Don Quixote.

Bob Bennett has an amazing ability to sound interesting about things that are fundamentally boring; you forget what he's talking about even before he stops speaking, but you remember how passionate he sounded. Van Dam has, I'm afraid, the opposite problem.

On the plus side, Rebecca Walsh of the Salt Lake Tribune looks good, sounds good, talks good. The BYU student picked to represent young people on the panel looks a bit ashamed. That's probably because her question was stolen word for word from the Rolling Stone interview with Kerry, and God help her if the honor committee find out she read that magazine.

I've been doing more flyers for the campaign. At some point, I'm going to fix those links so you folk can look at my work. After the election, it will be my chief qualification in job interviews. I'm also pretty much finalized the stipend the campaign will pay me. In a word (or two): not much.

But that's okay. I'm told that the first question asked in a campaign job interview is "have you ever received compensation for political work?" I can say yes, and hope that the second question asked in a campaign job interview isn't, "how much would said compensation get you at Starbucks?"