 Ridiculous. They get more and more ridiculous. Flat out dumb. You're even dumber than I thought. Who deserves today's Lars Grill of the Day? Maybe you're just really, really stupid. Find out right now. I've always thought that public financing of political campaigns is a bad idea. So, as a bad idea, Portlandia was all over it. Portland decided to have public financing of campaigns, and here's all you had to do to get it.