Endorse and Endorse, of Course, of Course

For the first time in its eighty-year history, The New Yorker has endorsed a presidential candidate, and they've chosen John Kerry. Add 'em to the list of Kerry endorsers, which currently includes The Washington Post, Newsday, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Republican (nice!), The Flint Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Miami Herald, The San Francisco Chronicle, and my own favorite paper of record, The New York Times.

Sadly, my hometown paper, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, has decided to take a permanent seat on what must be becoming an awfully uncomfortable fence and chosen to endorse no one, which is, in my opinion, as lame a cop-out as the one offered by the annoying hipsterette interviewed in the "Public Eye" section of this week's Time Out New York who said she preferred "not to get involved in politics at all, because my personal opinion is that it's all bullshit." Because, you know, nothing changes a bad situation like burying your head in the sand.