Matthias Shapiro has a video in the Y-Care contest to do video about our debt. You remember him from other videos on debt such as a visualization of Obama’s budget cuts using pennies. Anyway, go watch and vote for his video, because if he wins he says he’ll buy me an iPad 2.

I’ve quite enjoyed the blog [citation needed] which collects the worst and weirdest examples of writing from Wikipedia (and made by one of the writers from RiffTrax, which I may have mentioned before I really like). It now has a podcast – a podcast on writings from Wikipedia. How could that not be entertaining? Makes me a little nostalgic for the IMAO podcast, which I’d love to do again if it weren’t a ton of work.

So Keith Olbermann is going to Al Gore’s Current TV. I am not sure this is a real thing. Some say it’s an actual television channel, but there are also lots of evidence it’s just Gore in his basement pretending he’s on TV and people are watching him. Whatever it is, it sounds like it’s going to struggle to have the audience reach of the IMAO podcast in its heyday.

The idea is apparently another attempt to do a liberal FOX News. I’m not sure what that means. If they mean a stridently liberal news outlet, then most other news outlets already are a liberal FOX News. If they mean a liberal news outlet that is also popular like FOX, that’s just a fantasy. There are only so many ways to feed back liberals’ tired ideas to them, and I think MSNBC demonstrated about the maximum size of an audience for that.

So, better idea: Instead of Al Gore and Keith Olbermann doing news on Current TV, how about a reality show where they are a mismatched team of bounty hunters. I know I’ve proposed something like this before, but it’s just so obviously a good idea. Cameras would follow Gore and Olbermann as they pursued their bounty through the mean streets, and then they’d both lecture the guy when they caught him. Gore would be like, “Do you understand how your crimes affect the environment?” And Olbermann would be like, “How dare you, sir. How dare you.” And they’d get so caught up in their lecturing they’d miss the bounty escaping and inevitably get in a big argument blaming each other. Drama, action, lots of arguing between inflated egos — there’s a great reality show. Who would not watch that?

So you heard about this Christopher Lee thing? Before we had time to process what was going on, the guy was already gone. It was awesome. Why can’t it always be that as soon as a congressmen starts to be an embarrassment — BOOM! — he’s out the door. Caught on YouTube roughing up some kid on the streets, gone that day. Money found in your freezer, gone before anyone can write a coherent blog post about it. Charlie Rangel — gone decades ago.

As soon as anything starts to look fishy about any politician, they should be out the door immediately. Could this policy end up hurting some innocent congressmen? No, because they’re all politicians and not innocent. Plus, there is no right to a cushy legislative job.

Really, I see no downsides to constantly throwing out politicians for like anything. The only problem, of course, is that most are sociopaths who will cling to power as long as we can. That’s why we’ll need something new to enforce these anti-corruption measures: A robot. See, a robot has claws made of metal, so no matter how hard a politician tries to cling to his seat, the robot will be stronger and able to remove him. The robot will constantly patrol the halls of the Capitol reminding all politicians of its cold metal justice for corruption. It will have glowing red eyes and speak like Soundwave from the original Transformers cartoon.

Now, I know some of you are saying, “I’ve seen Robocop; isn’t this robot just going to eventually start hurting people and become uncontrollable?” No, because it will be programmed to only be able to touch politicians so there’s no fear of it hurting people.

So let’s win the future – a future free of corruption and full of robots.