Best. Debate Question. Ever.
You have to be a pretty serious geek to listen to a public radio debate between Republican gubernatorial primary candidates. But I think there's probably a whole other word for a person who misses the public radio broadcast and then, the next day, downloads the audio file to listen to on her (OK, my) iPod.
Whatever coolness points I lost, though, were well worth this hearing this question, posed to Andy Martin by the Daily Herald's Eric Krol:
"Mr. Martin, in your life, you've been sentenced to 12 yeaqrs for mail fraud only to see the conviction later overturned. You've been banned from filing frivolous lawsuits without court permission in several states. The Illinois Supreme Court once refused to grant you a law license, citing a military psychiatric examination that said you were paranoid and have delusions of grandeur and you once referred to a federal bankruptcy judge as a 'crooked slimy Jew who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race.' Why should any voter take you seriously?"
