If you haven’t already heard, Marion Barry was arrested. Again. This time it was for stalking his ex-girlfriend. Apparently, it’s another “bitch set me up” situation. It’s gotta be, because we all know that Mr. Barry is a very innocent man. Yeah.

Marion Barry is an offense to even the smarmiest of politicians (and god knows there’s never a dearth of those). Actually, he’s an offense to the smarmiest of any sub-category of human beings. He evinces a blatant disregard for any type of law, whether it be the law of “don’t smoke crack in a hotel room with an ex-girlfriend, especially when you’re the mayor of the nation’s capital city,” or the law of “if you’re going to insist on remaining in the very public political arena, you might want to pay your fucking taxes,” or even the law of “when you’re on probation for another crime, you might want to avoid testing positive for cocaine.”

Of course, this latest bust is still quite the mystery. It might actually turn out that Mr. Barry is innocent (just like all the other times). Right. Regardless of how this latest situation plays out, it doesn’t change the fact that Barry is an ass clown of the highest order, which is saying a lot when you consider the political company he has had throughout his career. He repeatedly pisses into the eyes of justice, decency, logic, and decorum with his arrogance and blatant disregard of the law. Yet he never goes away. Kind of like herpes.

I’d like to make lighter of this latest bust than I have, but I’m sick of Barry and his criminal insistence. He’s a man who could have been an amazing role model for his community and his constituents. Instead, he chooses to be the best repeat offender he can be. Way to make it into the history books, Mr. Barry.

Alaska Governor and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is resigning at the end of this month. She said she is doing so because she doesn’t want to be a lame duck. Well…she’s already done lame so well, I guess she just doesn’t feel she’d do justice to the duck part.

Why is she not yet a non-issue? She can’t possibly be serious about running in 2012, is she? You know what, I’m not even going to bother with coming up with any more jokes than the lame one I’ve already dropped. That last question is a big enough joke by itself.

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ADDED JULY 4

Okay, so I posted the first part of this entry rather quickly last night before going out for the evening. But then I started to think about it. Why did she make this announcement on a Friday afternoon right before a holiday weekend? That’s what you do with news that you want to sweep under the rug, not celebrate. And it’s one thing to announce that you won’t be running for re-election. She’s forfeiting the game with time still left on the clock.

Seriously, all that insane babbling about having fun as a lame duck…that’s not even relevant at this point because she was still in the midst of her first term. It really makes no sense. Of course, nominating her as the VP pick for the GOP didn’t make much sense either. Maybe that’s just her modus operandi: Confuse them into voting for you.

So, is she just “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” crazy? Or is she leaving for reasons as yet undisclosed? Are there skeletons trying to break out of her igloo? Late night trysts with all those Russians she can see from her house? Or does she really think she has a shot at the 2012 GOP presidential nomination?

I’d say stay tuned, but frankly, I just want her to go away. Not only does she make women look ridiculously stupid, but she’s making the GOP look inept and flaky. Even though I’m not much on Republican love, I also don’t believe in kicking a dog when it’s down.