Another feather for Jon Stewart's cap

Now that I have thoroughly lambasted TIME, allow me a tidbit of good news from that often moldy and bankrupt institution.

 

On its website, TIME has recently set up a 2008 election tracker called “The Racing Form” (http://www.time.com/time/2007/nation/democrats/ or http://www.time.com/time/2007/nation/republicans/, depending on your [sexual] preference). The page, TIME’s self-proclaimed “new data-driven guide to sizing up the candidates,” opens to reveal a table: the left column lists potential candidates, the top row lists 11 statistics and facts like “Current Polling Numbers,” “Total Cash on Hand,” and “Visits to Iowa since Nov. 2004.”

 

Among these important considerations—for both democrats and republicans—is “Number of Daily Show Appearances.”

 

Bravo, Stewart (et al)! Although it shames me that our country needs a satirist to fight the good fight, I can sleep at night knowing that at least somebody is.

 

-W.