Meet the old boss, same as the new boss

Mr. Obama has picked eternal candidate Joe Biden as his assistant emperor, fulfilling yet another cliché by "balancing the ticket."

With an "agent for change" leading the charge, apparently balance requires that the veep be a dinosaur.

No matter which ticket wins, the result of the November election will be a greater consolidation of state power against human rights. Don't know why I bother to follow this stuff, because as Mal Reynolds famously said, I just want to go my way. How 'bout dem Jets?