Imagine

Imagine: John Kerry might not defeat George W. Bush today.

I'm in a hotel room in Starkville, Mississippi, watching CNN and dreading the possibility that Bush might actually win again. I just don't get this country. I don't get the fascination with guns. I don't get how the South, where they had slavery for Christ's sake, can go Republican. I don't get Tucker Carlson's bow ties.

I've been watching CNN all day, and I'm so glad I did, because if I hadn't, I might never have learned that John Kerry was in a band in the 1960s called The Electras.

Two of the band members, Jon Prouty and Larry Rand, were on CNN today, talking about The Electras, John Kerry, and the band's plans to reunite. Prouty and Rand told the story of four young lads, not from Liverpool, all of whom could play guitar. No one wanted to play bass. It was John Kerry who finally made the sacrifice and switched to the instrument that many musicians, certainly most young men, consider inferior.

I think that for this reason alone the man deserves to be President.

Electras legend also has it that in 1972, John Kerry met John Lennon.

Two guys, both named John.

Both in bands.

Both...

Well, OK, that's it.

In the next story, Postmodern Sass plays a Journey song.