Now here’s something useful: The Political Graveyard: The Web Site That Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried.

My favorite so far, further strengthening my conviction that politics were more interesting before Philo T. Farnsworth:

David Smith Terry (1823-1889)... Justice of California state supreme court, 1855-59; chief justice of California state supreme court, 1857-59; delegate to California state constitutional convention, 1878-79. Killed U.S. Senator David Broderick in a duel near San Francisco in 1859; tried and acquitted for murder. Shot and killed by the bodyguard of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen J. Field, whom he had confronted and slapped, in the train station restaurant at Lathrop, San Joaquin County, Calif., August 14, 1889.

Enough with the attack ads and sniping at one another in press conferences. I want politicians who aren’t afraid to submit their disputes to the arbitrament of steel.