Hey, Beloved 1988 Dem nominee Michael Dukakis was such a crappy candidate that he lost to despised vice president George Bush, so now he’s warning America that the Republicans will still figure out a way to keep the White House beyond 2008, even though everybody hates the Republicans and all the GOP candidates and especially Bush Junior and Dick Cheney.

“We’re not going to outspend the other guys,” he said during an interview in his modest office in the political science department at Northeastern University, where he was the first to arrive (at 7:30 a.m.) on a recent midsummer morning. “We’re probably not going to outstrategize them. And some crazy guy will blow up a building with three weeks to go, you know, and then we’ll be back in Bush-land again.”

While we object to dismissing Karl Rove as “some crazy guy,” Dukakis does have a point. As George Will, the original bowtied conservative prick, uses “Second Life” is this internet thing that is kind of like The Sims but with more furries and anonymous strangers purchasing huge virtual genitalia with which to virtually penetrate one another. Also it’s a hotbed of modern politics! All sorts of political types have forced interns to make them Second Life headquarters, all of which are monitored by The “AvaStar” (same parenthetical note applies) referred to the vandal as “an aide to a RL US presidential candidate” (“RL” means “Real Life,” a terrifying place where no one can fly or anything and busty dolphins rarely respond favorably to misspelled come-ons).

Lest you think they mean Joe Biden, they reveal that the internet criminal was an intern for Mike Gravel.

Blogger MediaLoper, thankfully, practices the sort of hard-hitting investigating reporting that has already distinguished the internet revolution.

“Lego” is a volunteer for the Gravel campaign, in some vague, unpaid capacity. He joined Second Life a little over a