The Shrieking Leviathan of Doom ascends from its watery lair, swallowing whole the forsaken and the damned in their agonizing descent into hell

While most political hacks are chattering away about what the candidates will be saying in the "series-of-short-canned-speeches" (aka "debate") tonight, those truly in-the-know will be rubbing wet hunks of garlic under their arms, squeezing the eyeballs out of frogs, tossing powdered wallaby teeth over their shoulders, and, yes, looking for omens.