I've been saying since early January that there's something wrong with 2016. It's like we all fell asleep like Rip van Winkel at Thanksgiving, and all the horror since then is just a bad dream. We're going to wake up eventually and enjoy Christmas 2015, before 2016 starts over properly without all this freaky shit.

"and naturally it involved a strip tease and an appearance by a man described as "bonkers" by the Prime Minister of Bolivia."

Wrong country

Ah, the LP-USA. If you were unfamiliar with the institution you'd think that 2016 would be a bonanza year for them. After all, large numbers of registered republicans describe themselves as libertarian or libertarian-leaning, and the GOP nominee is an addled egomaniac with no more interest in curbing state power than he has in being married to a woman with visible wrinkles. All the LP-USA should have to do is nominate a legit-seeming candidate and they can carry off 15% of the vote without trying and teach the GOP a harsh lesson about ignoring their natural base at the local chamber of commerce...

...except that of course the LP-USA is a clown show. Has always been a clown show, and very much prefers being a clown show. Stripping beardo there is just the tip of the iceberg: go ask your local LP party chair what he (no need to worry about pronouns here: it's a dude) thinks about child abuse laws. Or child prostitution laws. Or private ownership of anti-tank rockets. Or private ownership of nuclear weapons.

Oh, and please note that beardo-thong man there has an enormous iron cross tattoo on one of his shoulders, so that's charming too.

Hey at least someone around here supports open government.