Fourteen years ago Seattle's Victor Aloysius Meyers suspected that he was about to be elected mayor. He felt a passionate urge to emit a few genteel and stately phrases. At the time, he was costumed in a sheet and was leading a goat; he thought he'd better change back into store clothes before he made his statement.
Victor Meyers' sudden resolution horrified a Seattle Times reporter named Doug Welch. Reason: the Times was running Vic for mayor to express its jaundiced opinion of the serious candidates, and it was Welch's chore to keep him funny. Welch gave Vic a card to...
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