Saw an oddly familiar, disheveled dude in downtown Lincoln yesterday, sitting on the sidewalk, leaning against a building. Other homeless guys gave him a wide berth, said he "smells a little New Yorky." Sure enough, the guy reeked of eau du pastrami, pizza, subway station and garbage-men-are-on-strike curbside. Then I saw his cardboard sign: "RuNNinG 4 SenaTE but no PlAcE to liV. PleZ heLP." Ah, OK. So, I dropped 50 cents into his stocking cap for his Super PAC and moved on, but fer chrissake, this is getting pathetic.