Dressed to Impress

Remember Bernhard Goetz? The fellow who shot the four kids in the NY subway about twenty years ago? I can't say that I've kept up with him much (or any) since then, but he's gearing up for a run for mayor of NYC in 2005.

He's 55 now, still single, still ghostly pale and thin. He's still avidly pro-vegetarian and anti-circumcision. He'd probably be happy to spend his days alone in his apartment, selling electronics on the Internet and rescuing injured squirrels from Union Square Park, then nursing his wild roommates back to health by hand. But with the city again in crisis, Bernie thinks he has some answers.

The article cites Goetz's website as bernie4mayor.com, though it is actually bernieformayor.com. The platform doesn't make him sound much odder than your garden variety libertarian, but then you see pictures of him like this:

Now that's gravitas.