Thank you, Will Kelley-Kamp, for giving me a reason to post my favorite blog photo of the month—and perhaps of all time.

Earlier today, Will called bullshit on this logic, from today's Seattle Times endorsement of three-time city council candidate Robert Rosencrantz:

It is our experience that candidates who want the job that badly become high-quality legislators quickly after the election.

To which I would only add Robert “Prince Mongo” Hodges, who really, really wants the job of mayor of Memphis, and showed up at a candidate forum earlier this month to make it plain. That's him on the left:

His closing argument:

Well, the thing that you need to do the most is to go look in the mirror tonight and see what a fool you’ve been for electing the thieves that you’ve continued to elect to run this city year after year. Count the ones you’ve got in prison today, or tonight. I think you’ve got seven. And that starts in the Senate and works its way down. So you have been in bed with the most corruption of anybody in the world in politics. So I think you need to vote for me, and you’ll straighten it all out, because I’m not one to be bought and sold.

Can't argue with that.

Or with candidate Leo Awgowhat, who wore a "Go Fuck Yourself" t-shirt to the same forum. Or with Ernie Lunati, who is campaigning on a "shut ‘em down completely" platform. Sure, they might not have run three times in a row like Rosencrantz. (Although I'm not an expert on Memphis politics, and wouldn't put it past any of them.)

But they're all men who, in the words of the Times, "want the job that badly."