How’s it hangin’, everybody? Now that Obama’s finally selected his running mate, we can all get back to talking about important things, like shaved pandas and where we’re going to get the capital needed to open up new locations of Junkpunchers. Wait, what? You say that there’s now some sort of convention that’s going on in Denver? And that there’s another one right after that in Minneapolis/St. Paul? Oh.

Well, regardless, we’ll stay vigilant and keep monitoring your valued, insightful contributions to DCist. I can only hope that we keep the spirit of Godwin’s Law alive and well. And in honor of these next two weeks of political insanity, our Comment of the Week comes from one of our finest political commentarians, Reid – noting that by 2100, people will probably scoff at the supposed importance of November’s vote:

According to all politicos, the coming election is always the most important election ever. Meaning that it’s more important that the last election, which was also the most important election ever. At least up to that point.

Of course what this means it that this election will be the 3rd least important election of the 21st century.

Yup, it’s true. That McKinley-Jennings Bryant election in 1900? Practically pointless. But it was likely the most important election ever in 1899!

After the jump: “that southeast” and it’s boundaries; and Dick Heller’s Magical Fun-Time Bicycle!

Photo by Terecico.