It was the kind of week when you thought that if you bumped into just one more political candidate, you’d run away and barricade yourself in your home. It always gets that way during election time. You realize that you have not heard an original public utterance since sometime last year, and can barely keep from choking hapless friends who, in all innocence, ask who might make it into the runoff with Jim Hahn.Thank heavens that a few uncampaigning incumbents last week found ways to divert us from the flow of seasonal drivel, and to remind us just how absurd politicians can be, even when they are not out there running for office.