13 thoughts on “Calls for Cthulhu #5”

1. Unfair – he ate my soul!

   Again!

2. Since I’m a former journalist, Cthulhu can’t swallow what I don’t have.

3. This is true. And you’ll never grow a new one as long as you’re a geek!

4. How many geeks do you know who’ve stayed up all night watching a prison riot through the wire or who’ve covered more than a few murders and violent deaths, or who’ve learned the Virginia local government budget process inside out . . . wait, you’re right – I’m a soulless geek.

   Damn.

5. What’s so complicated about “accept envelope from lobbyist and remember to open it later, behind closed doors?”

6. I didn’t say Jersey . . . . .

7. In Virginia, how much is it for a vote nowadays? I hear since the birthrate went up the market for votes has been depressed.

8. In all seriousness, the corruption rate here is probably lower than in many states. While there’s a good old boy system around like in most states, we’re sure as hell not Texas or Louisiana. The State Police has been pretty good about nailing corrupt local government types, and the FOI laws here are better than in a lot of places. And voting corruption hasn’t been near the problem as in other states.

   But it still happens.

9. Actually, George magazine did a great roundup of the most corrupt districts. Washington DC was near the top, of course.

   But now I’m confused: wasn’t it YOU who started out saying journalists were soulless?

10. We are – see just how amoral I can be?

11. Ah, now I know how Marion Barry feels: entrapment by the media!!!

12. Be smug – I got to see the federal convoy that brought his crack whore girlfriend to the hotel right across from where I was working in Alexandria the night that Berry was ‘framed’.

    If you know how Marion Berry felt, you’re even more soulless than me >B^D>

13. I am! IA! IA! Cthulhu ’08! Why vote for the lesser evil.

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