Lou Gehrig 2.0

Ted Stevens gives his last address to the Senate here and we can honestly allow our eyes to well at the passing of a true monument: a Senator who could operate with impunity because he gave so much money back to his tiny, tiny state that their oil revenues would fund everything else, including his corruption, and a system of government that would allow a person, no matter how corrupt and how compromised, no matter the party in charge, to remain in power and to continue to direct funds back to their power base. We are, in fact, the luckiest people on the face of the earth.