Former Democratic congressman Jim Traficant was released from prison today after serving seven years for bribery and racketeering. Traficant was known as a flake for his wild floor speeches and also for his outrageous toupé.
I didn’t know what to expect when the story on his release described him thusly:
He wore a T-shirt, shorts and knee-high white socks and carried some of his belongings in a plastic bag.
That sounded pretty sad and forlorn, so I searched for a photo of him at the time of his release, and …. the man LOOKS GREAT! He looks tanned and fit, and one wonders, after looking at the photo, why he ever resorted to that dead possum toupé.
