"a long-distance run"

So Blagojevich is basically over with, having been impeached today in the Illinois House. Now he moves to the Senate. So the shenanigans continue - his initial comments are even better than his decision to quote Rudyard Kipling during the Blago-Burris-Rush press conference a couple weeks ago.

But he said: "Let me simply say I feel like the old Alan Sillitoe short story 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.' ... And that's what this is by the way, a long-distance run." He then promised to say more at an afternoon news conference.

Milorad is the maybe the best-read Governor-felon-Elvis-fanatic-delusional-sociopath in American history.

The Sun-Times notes that this would be Nixon's 95th birthday, but in their "Blagojevich through the years" photo-montage, they neglected to include this really great photo of Blago and Nixon, taken in 1980. Note, as one commenter does in this link, that his hair basically remains the same.