Gormley: Joke candidates are downright good for democracy

Though it has not been officially confirmed that Finn the Australian cattle dog can sit, stay or roll over on command, he does perform a neat little trick wherein he runs for mayor of St. John’s, N.L.; for this he is either a very good boy, as various global commentators have observed, or a very bad one, if you are the sort of person who hates cute animals and humour.
It’s uncontroversial enough to say that hating animals probably makes you an unpleasant sort of person. I’d lik