Glenn Beck // Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

The good news coming in over the weekend is that Glenn Beck announced that he wasn’t running for President.  The bad news is that he seems to think of himself as some sort of a religious prophet, and a lot of people seem to agree with him.

Beck proved that he wasn’t completely delusional when he admitted that he would be unelectable should he decide that he was running for the nation’s highest office.  On that, I assume he is correct, but then again, you never know.

Beck’s rally, from all the news reports, was a political curiosity, in that it wasn’t supposed to be overtly political.  He gave an award to Albert Pujols, the St. Louis Cardinal’s slugger, and somehow suckered Tony LaRussa, the Cardinals’ long-time manager to be there to actually present the award to his star.  He also gave an award to a relative of Martin Luther King, which was appropriate, (I guess) since it was 47 years to the day that King gave his famous “I Have A Dream” speech in that very same location.  Read more...