F is For. . . "Fine, Alan"

Alan Fine is Minnesota's fifth district Republican candidate for congress. AKA; The "also-ran" to Democrat Keith Ellison. Fine has done his level-best to sling mud at Fine - essentially amounting to "He's a Muslim! He loves Malcolm X! He hates Jews!" It's all pretty sad. Over the weekend, Fine solidified his place in my month-long alphabet with THIS ARTICLE in the Star Tribune (just edging out "Foley, Mark," "Freedom Fries" and "F@ck! Kim Jong Il's got The Bomb!"). Apparently Fine has some spousal-abuse problems in his past. Ahem, "allegedly." Check it out. The article, incidentally, was co-written by a former professor of mine, as fine as instructor and investigative journalist as you could ever ask for. Certainly a good job this time 'round. But I digress. I'd say Alan Fine may yet manage to place third come election day, and deserve it, with the kind of campaign he's run. I'm just looking forward to seeing a congressman swearing in with his hand on the Koran. . .