Vote of no confidence

Colorado has some weird stuff in the elections tomorrow. For one thing, Denver resident Jeff Peckman -- the same guy who thought a really badly done video of a Peeping Tom alien was real -- went around to other Denverites and got enough signatures to get an initiative on the ballot to create an alien affairs bureau. I wish I were kidding. I wrote about this last year, hoping it wouldn't come to pass, but he got enough signatures (though many were apparently faked) to get it on the Denver ballot. Yay. Or, I guess, "yay?" Over at the JREF's Swift blog, Karen Stollznow has the takedown of this ridiculous situation. It's tempting to laugh it off, except that 1) it's already cost real money to even get this on the ballot, and b) this election cycle is so crazy that something like this might have a real chance. We'll ...