Irrelevance, Interrupted...
He came to the swamplands of the Potomac swathed in a cloud of scandal. He's been ignored since the day he arrived at his new job. And today, my senator, Roland Burris, has me humming a little Janis Joplin right now (lyrics by the talented Kris Kristofferson)... "Freedom's just another word, for nothing left to lose And nothing's all that [Roddy] left me, yah." Yes, Roland Burris rolled into Washington with a a whole lotta nothing in his back pocket. He'd been handed the senate seat by a man charged with trying to sell it, Rod Blagojevich, the Kipling-quoting ex-gov of Illinois – and allegedly a future "Celebrity Apprentice" contestant. (Can one be The Donald's apprentice from behind bars? Because the ex-gov's someday going to stand trial on corruption charges and sometimes such things end up with a jail term....) So Roland Burris came to DC as a lame duck senator, with just two years left in the term Obama left when he became ...