I dreamed last night that I was in the Little House on the Prairie episode where Charles is railroaded into joining the Ku Klux Klan.

I don’t think that episode ever aired. Or even existed.

If it had, it would have been a two-parter the way I dreamed it.

With a subplot where Mrs. Oleson seizes control of her hedge fund but ends up losing a bundle anyway.

“You can always spot a fool, for he is the man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. But an election is a living thing–you might almost say, the most vigorously alive thing there is–with thousands upon thousands of brains and limbs and eyes and thoughts and desires, and it will wriggle and turn and run off in directions no one ever predicted, sometimes just for the joy of proving the wiseacres wrong.”–Marcus Tullius Tiro in Robert Harris’s Imperium.

“Throughout his distinguished career in service to the people of Ohio, U.S. Senator George V. Voinovich has strived to make government ‘work harder and smarter and do more with less.’”–official Voino biography.

“We’re going to have to raise more money in this country. Did you hear me? We’re going to have to increase taxes in order to do the job.”–Voino this week, according to the Gongwer News Service.

The wavin’ wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain.

In my defense, I lost valuable time typing in some of the long, fun ones like “Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.”

(How do I remember “Saint Vincent and the Grenadines” but not, say, “Norway”? Sad.)