we desperately need this in the u.s.: bjork's brother-in-law or whatever for pres: a world run by anarchist comedians and punk musicians. a drug-free congress by 2020! but so far are we from these good ideas that i can't even get student senate candidates at dickinson college not to take the tiny bit of power seriously: why not a monarchist party? i ask, or a military junta? or one-party dictatorship? a surrealist party? a taliban to wrap our students in burqas and prohibit kite-flying? a theocracy dedicated to entirely new god? or an insane cult of personality? but no, they just keep earnestly promising increased support for student organizations. is that any way to pad a resume?