While we wait for the results of this full week of D.C. Council budget negotiations, a process that’s at least partly colored by the most recent Marion Barry scandals, we thought it might be good for all of us to take a step back from complaining about our city’s ineffectual political system … and laugh about someone else’s. DCist tech guru Tom Lee recently circulated these videos, compiled from the open public comment periods at sessions of the Santa Cruz City Council and the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors in Santa Cruz, Calif., and we just can’t stop watching them. Every community has its crosses to bear in the form of weirdos and busybodies who like to shove their way into local politics, but Santa Cruz appears to have more than its fair share. We hasten to add that the first 25 seconds or so of the audio portion of this video is NSFW.