The current state of the presidential race might give the average citizen reason to despair and might even challenge the creative genius of the world's greatest political cartoonist, but as I sit at my desk, I see Duke, dragging on his cigarette, saying, "Things could be worse; Zonker could be running." On second thought, that doesn't sound so bad.
Susannah B. Tobin '00 is a classics concentrator in Lowell House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays.