I'm not sure why this is here. It's not funny, it's just stupid, probably offensive.

But this Huckabee video kills me: huckabee

I thought the hammer was funny.

And the Huckabee video---reminds me of the old Laugh In show, but then I was just telling a young friend today that this election year with conventional wisdom being wrong so often is what 1968 was like.

I thought I saw an interesting message in the video: overkill accomplishes nothing.

But I sometimes take things like this too seriously.

shame on you. What poor taste you have . . . it'll be amazing if you have any business left when this election is over.

I agree that it's kind of tasteless, but it was created by an apparent Novick supporter.

If you caught last weekend's Civil War basketball game, you saw a hilarious campaign spot for U.S. Senate candidate Steve Novick called "A Beer With Steve Novick," which highlighted Novick's hook-hand and its less-than-obvious benefits. The ad is blowing up (and rightfully so). It's "gone viral" on the web, boasting more than 60,000 views on YouTube, even landing the Democratic Novick on Fox News (!).

Now the video has completed the next step towards Internet canonization: It's been parodied . By me and my friends. I'm pleased to present the Internet debut of a Willamette Week original: "A Beer With Sleeve Nohooke":

Jim: I'm not a "Steve Novick supporter." Caring about a U.S. Senate race is for old people and NRA members: I'm 23, and I rescinded my lifetime membership after seeing "Bowling for Columbine" twelve times. For a busy college student like me it's the presidential campaign or nothing. But probably nothing.

I am, however, a big supporter of the ad, which I think is incredibly creative for a political spot. Thanks!

I don't think the ad was offensive or disgusting or a smear. I don't think the Novickies should be upset.

But I also don't think the ad was all that funny, either.

I'll take my lumps now.

Excuse me. I was talking about the parody, not the original ad, which was quite funny.

Caring about a U.S. Senate race is for old people and NRA members: I'm 23, and I rescinded my lifetime membership after seeing "Bowling for Columbine" twelve times. For a busy college student like me it's the presidential campaign or nothing. But probably nothing.

And this is why old, white haired men that don't care about your problems run this country.

I hope you never complain about your local services, this state, taxes, gas prices, text books, rent, or...well you get the point.

It is your local elected officials who get results on this stuff. So if you care about those things you better start caring and leave the slacker "voting is for old people" mantra behind.

This is what happens with the internet -- people who don't know Adrian and didn't see the video of Adrian's blind dates with Mary Starrett and Joe Keating ("Blind CandiDate") -- see another clever offering of his and don't get the joke.

Sigh... look up "Blind Candidate" on You Tube and I think you'll discover Mr. Chen is serious about playing with your mind and very serious about politics.

One reason to use humor and silliness, and sometimes crass appeals to sex, in politics is to engage disengaged voters. This isn't just a "young thing" either -- unless someone can explain Ben Westlund's Jizz Pimp for Treasurer campaign T-shirts.

Wasn't the average age of voters in Oregon's last primary something like 60 years old? Gee, do you think it's because all the media attention gets sucked up by national candidates that we, in Oregon, have almost NO influence over with our late primary? So only older voters, who are more likely to notice and care about the local and state elections, where our May votes actually do matter, bother to vote. [I sure didn't know jack about zoning, and the local officials who manage it, until we bought a house. e.g.] Good lord people, we have to do something to make the primaries sexy -- or at least slightly cheeky.

I'm thinking of a county commissioner beauty contest -- let's get Pete Sorenson, Rob Handy, Bobby Green and whoever else emerges by March 6th in evening gowns and bathing suits. Speedos, anyone?

I'd show up for that!

Now don't get obnoxious and start preaching about wanting "educated" voters -- I know a whole lotta boomers who voted for Reagan in 1980, so we all make mistakes, right?

Keep it up Adrian!

Yeah, he could have: Smashed the beer with a can of peas, Tossed the bottle and poured her a pint from a tap, Shot the top off with a revolver hidden up his sleeve, Tried to smash the bottle with the hammer while he looked/talked at her and hit his thumb instead.

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