Indiana’s favorite perpetual Congressional candidate Tony Zirkle, the Republican crackpot who once proposed using the guillotine on “porn pimps,” has another innovative new idea for America: segregation! And his Congressional opponents have called his “fringe lunatic” antics “divisive, hateful, and uninformed,” because those opponents are boring people who fear exciting new ideas. MORE »

Uh, Indiana? You guys are nuts. MORE »

What journalist has the best gig in the country? We think it might be James Wensits of the South Bend Tribune. He gets to follow around Crazy Congressional Candidate Tony Zirkle. Zirkle, whose antics and threats of French Revolution-style public executions we’ve covered previously, is the craziest candidate of the ‘06 midterms — a group not lacking in craziness. Let’s check in with Tony and see what he’s up to this week:

Now, Zirkle says, he will shred a copy of the “original Marilyn Monroe Playboy magazine” at a Monday news conference in his South Bend law office. He has made a campaign issue of pornography and sex-related crimes.

According to Zirkle, he paid $1,200 to an Internet source to acquire the rare magazine so that he could destroy it.

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We hear that it’s basically a done deal that Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) is announcing his retirement today. So we’d like to recommend a replacement. This gentleman here is currently running an unwinnable primary race against Count Rep. Chocola. We highly recommend pulling him out and sending him to defend Mr. Boehlert’s district. Why? Because he’s got an unbeatable platform: MORE »