This is the Cator Daily Podcast for Friday, November 19, 2010.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Politics is ugly.

You don't want to see it practice in its raw form.

A. J. O'Rourke, the day after this year's election,

detailed some of his new book, Don't Vote.

It just encourages the bastards.

O'Rourke is a Macon research fellow

at the Cato Institute.

He likens politics new and old to the

simple game of Kill Screw Mary. We lost that election last night, you know, and I

don't say that just because Republicans didn't take the Senate in our

We lost that election because almost every political contest yesterday was won by a politician.

A couple of cases, Angry Nuts won, which is an improvement over politicians but it's really it's just not good

enough.

I will not be satisfied until every seat in the House and Senate is filled by a regular person, a regular person who quite

reasonably hates being there. I want government to be like jury duty. And not jury

duty for some exciting crime like the O.J Simpson murder. You know what I mean?

I want government to be like jury duty for a long, boring, complex, confusing trial

concerning tax law. In fact, let me suggest indicting our federal tax code,

just for starts, which is nothing but fraud. I want government to be dull, a dull and onerous

responsibility like attending a parent-teacher conference you know, something that to be undertaken with

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