CHICAGO (Reuters) – For want of a small change to the Illinois election law, President Bush’s name is not supposed to be on the state’s November ballot, but officials said one way or another, it will be there.

The glitch arose because the Illinois legislature adjourned earlier this week without extending the Aug. 30 deadline for presidential candidates to be certified by the state elections board and qualify for the Nov. 2 ballot.

Oh! Oh! There went my ass again. It keeps falling off today.

First, Al Franken gets tortured on his show, because Ann Coulter said it had to be done. I cracked up discreetly all over my keyboard, as I really doubt that simulated torture with nipple clips and electricty is really work-safe, do you? Good thing this show is on radio.

And then while checking out the comments for said segment (which were all along the lines of “we love funny! Bring the funny every day!”, someone mentioned the BFB problem my great state of Illinois has. So off I went to check it out, and dang it my ass fell right off again.

The pols will get it sorted out, but boy do our legislators look stupid – well, the Repugnican ones, anyway. The Dems probably sat back and snickered unhelpfully behind their hands, and now we all look stupid. Guess they were a little too in touch with their Inner Child. As in “hee hee! D00d, they totally don’t know! Move to adjourn, I dare you!”

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