Okay. So the shirt's a little much.

But this guy actually has a point.

He's a candidate. A third-party candidate for Nevada governor. His name is Christopher Hansen, and boy is he pissed.

The Independent American wasn't invited to participate in the second gubernatorial debate, so he rushed the stage just as the festivities were beginning.

Hansen had one chance to get his message out. He had about five seconds before security grabbed him. So he grabbed the mic and screamed,

"I'm running for governor too, and I deserve the right to speak too!"

That was all he was able to say.

Yeah, buddy. You're right. You do deserve the right to speak. You may be just a little nutty, but we voters should be able to decide that for ourselves.

Don't sweat it, though. It wasn't a real debate. It was just a forum for speechifying, since the Dem and Repub candidates had received the questions in advance and had plenty of time to figure out their answers.

I heard this morning on NPR (and darn it, I can't find the backup -- forgive me) that fundraising for this election season hit an incredible one BILLION dollars. A midterm election season. And almost all of it is backing candidates from the two major parties. More than ever, our representatives aren't REALLY representative of us. They're part of a numbers game, with their only function to tip the legislative balance to one side or the other.

It seems as if I've been voting for the "lesser of two evils" ever since I came of age. For almost 20 years I've made decisions based on who was electable. Am I just now realizing what everyone else has known for decades: that we're so mired in the two-party system that the lesser evil is the best choice any of us have? Or am I just now tired of it?

Have these people, with their insane money and their attack ads and their studied "positions" become more craven and greedy, or am I just now noticing?

If I've been that blind all this time, then shame on me.

Thing is, now what do I do? What do any of us do? How do we get the candidates we want . . . instead of the ones we deserve?