Everyone's favorite politician/Keebler elf Ron Paul is at it again. This week as the Republican National Convention takes place in St. Paul, Paul staged his own micro-convention in nearby Minneapolis. The Texas lawman was one of the last contenders to drop out of the presidential race, and showed an uncanny ability to raise many millions of dollars despite the fact he never had a prayer of actually winning the nomination.

Perhaps he's most famous for his rabid army of mostly college-age supporters who flood internet blog posts about their fearless leader with avalanches of comments ranging from essays about the evils of NATO to the obligatory "RON PAUL RULZ YOU SUK" gems. All were surely energized by his convention yesterday, which featured guests like NBC's no-longer-bow-tied Tucker Carlson and former Governor/wrestler Jesse Ventura, who now looks suspiciously like Steven Seagal. He had this to say:

"I wrote the book, 'Don't Start the Revolution Without Me.' Well, I'm here!" he said over the applause. "Believe me, with people like myself, Dr. Paul and all the rest of us, let's get the revolution going!"

Wow, who knew you can be a revolutionary AND a sellout at the same time? Dr. Paul provided a bit more reasoned anaylsis of his recent presidential bid:

"I did not want to run people's lives. I did not want to run the economy and I did not want to run the world. I didn't have the authority to do it, and I didn't have the Constitution behind me to do it."

By the way, the way "not to run people's lives" is to abolish almost every government agency from the IRS (good), the DEA (ehh), the FDA (probably bad), as well as removing almost all American military bases aborad. Well, it's certainly change. And it appears it's certainly believed in.