American primary politics is always stupid and boring, and I try to avoid it. Given up http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/ for the duration. So I should not even have read Christopher Hitchens on the process. But at least someone exposes the whole thing as counter-democratic and absurd and mostly a self-serving stunt by the media.
When's someone going to do the equivalent for our own expensive cesspool of inaccountability and votebuying: the leadership convention? As Hitchens says, the scandal is not what's illegal. It's what's legal.
