Just a Gwai Lo fun within prescribed limits [?]

Adam Sternbergh: “[G]iven the alarming real-life precedents (the unlikely union, for example, of the words "Senator Sonny Bono"), it's not outrageous to expect that C-Span might one day look like an episode of Battle of the Network Stars.”

Also: “When the usual pool of candidates -- lawyers, businessmen, or former prep-school layabouts -- enter politics, they can be blindsided by the sudden attention to every past indiscretion. Celebrities, however, have spent a lifetime spinning, defusing and, in some cases, exploiting their misdeeds. Former pill addict? Check! Affairs out the yin-yang? You betcha!”

No mention of Jesse "The Body" Ventura, however.