Monica took what might have been a pretty ridiculous assignment and turned it into something wonderful. She transformed a fringe Republican Gubernatorial candidacy into a 962-word think-piece on the intersection of politics, the Internet and Napoleon Dynamite. WaPo: Basil Marceaux lost his race, but on Web he won place in …

Our friends at Red State Update, who we’ve interviewed, recently did an interview themselves. The lucky winner: Republican Basil Marceaux for governor of the Great State of Tennessee