Jack Kevorkian, right to die advocate, death-machine inventor and convicted felon, will be able to add another line to his resume this week: Congressional Candidate. Kevorkian announced today that he plans on running for Congress in Michigan, where felons can indeed run for Congress, despite being 79 and a habitual non-voter. He says he’s actually only ever voted once in an election.

Kevorkian, of no particular political party, will be challenging Republican incumbent Joe Knollenberg. He, um, also says that his Congressional campaign “is the most important thing in my life right now,” which surprises no one as he can’t kill anyone anymore, no one’s paid attention to him since he got out of the clink and he’s really old. But, with the way the war is going (4,000 American dead and God knows how many others as of this morning), the death business really has been outsourced to Washington, D.C. anyway.

Kevorkian announces bid for Congress [Detroit Free Press]