At Abu Graibe, the women found ways to be horrible, too.

It's easy. Just be rich or famous, preferably rich AND famous.

Lots of states have defacto holidays on the first day of various hunting seasons.

True story. I used to live in a small city/big town in south Louisiana. The day of the election for city mayor happened to fall on the first day of hunting season (I think it was deer, but it could have been another species) AND the day that a highly anticipated craft show opened in town. The race was between a decent candidate and a crazy and corrupt former mayor. I voted before going to the craft show, but apparently most of my neighbors assumed that other folks would vote and went hunting or to the show instead. Incredibly low turn out. In fact, the only people voting were probably me and the extended family of the crazy crook. The crazy crook was reelected mayor and the whole city woke up the next day with basically the equivalent of a mass hangover and a whole lot of regret. Everyone spent the next few years trying to keep the crazy man under control and counting the days until the next election.

I've never smoked pot or cigarettes because I was raised around people with serious lung disease (smokers, coal miners, coal miners who smoked). Didn't really encourage me to suck stuff down into my lungs. Beer and tequila are a different matter entirely.

Most people in that category are now independents.

Real Joe probably has a couple of cousins who are real plumbers and who make more than he does as VP.

Come to think about it, Joey the Enforcer's elderly mother (God rest her soul) could have taken down Joe "not really a plumber".

Naw, Biden's from the mid-Atlantic. The body would be dumped in a wetland somewhere or buried in the endzone of a football field.

Then have a shot and a beer.

"Who Would Win In A Barfight: Joe The Plumber Or Joe The Biden?"

Joe the "Plumber" would break down in tears before Joe the Biden did more than use harsh language.