Den Beste: Drug-resistant Tuberculosis Bacteria to Kerry-as-the-Tofu-Candidate

And he makes it all work in his fascinating, inimitable way, in Partial Cures.

At the end Steven writes:

I'm not completely convinced Kerry stands for anything, except that he's standing for election.

He stands in favor of gun control. He flew back from campaigning to cast a vote on that topic when he's missed the overwhelming majority of votes in the House Senate for quite a while. If nothing else did it for me, that was enough to tell me that I never want that man's hands on the levers of power.