So Mayor Bloomberg of New York is contemplating a run for the Presidency, using half a billion dollars of his own money!

 Bloomberg appears to be a good manager, seems to think about the welfare of all his constituents (rather than just those who contribute to election expenses), and is intelligent and hard-working..  Maybe we could find some other people like him? Why not open the race to anyone who can afford the expense out of their own pocket, and sell the job to the highest bidder?  This would be (a) quicker and would avoid ridiculously long election run-ups, and (b) it would save all those energy-consuming , time-wasting fundraising preludes to actual elections. 

 So how about a red-blooded Russian mafioso, complete with hoods with eye-shades and sub-automatics?  At the moment they are all either jailed in Russia or languishing in the South of France, drinking vodka and eating caviar off gold plates.   Ask yourself, could they do a worse job that the present crowd?  Will we be robbed any the more or less? Won’t we feel at home with "assistants" carrying weapons?  At least they have traveled and have experience of a form of diplomacy.

 Initial applications, please, to The Epicurean Blog, with down-payments of $5 million.

P.S   Pliss, zis is, what you call it, a "joke"?