The above image is from the Chicago Tribune’s home page today and unintentionally says a great deal about what’s wrong with politics in America today … but that’s not what this post is about.

As usual, Illinois will play the crucial presidential primary role of being completely irrelevant, so even if I were a Democrat I’d have little reason to vote today, except to choose between a bunch of subpar U.S. senatorial candidates.

And yet, a glimmer of hope pierces the darkness of this election day — I have the opportunity use my vote as an ironic gesture.

You see, there’s a Nimrod running for office. “Aren’t they all?” you rightly ask.

Yes, they are, but this time there’s an actual Nimrod running for office: Timothy D. Nimrod is running for a judgeship in the Cook County Circuit Court’s 9th Judicial Subcircuit Court.

Here’s a guy whose rulings will get overturned a lot. What appellate court’s going to be skittish about overturning a Judge Nimrod decision? But hey, Lodge #7 of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police endorsed him! So he must be all right.

Should I walk the 20 feet to my polling place to register my ironic support for Candidate Nimrod? I think I’d be a nimrod not to.