Somehow, somewhere, I triggered an algorithm that now assaults me with ads for Ruben Gallego for United States Senate.

I can’t boot up without Gallego’s hangdog face staring at me from my computer screen, pleading with me, imploring me to contribute to his campaign.

I know Gallego is a child of the 1980s and ’90s, but this is too much.

He’s running the Edith Fore campaign.

Edith Fore, you ask? Who the heck is that?

Edith Fore is someone you know well. You never heard her real name. You probably don’t remember her stage name — “Mrs. Fletcher” — but you know Edith.

Do you ever.

Edith was an unforgettable fixture of 1980s and 1990s American television, when young Ruben Gallego was coming of age in inner city Chicago.

She’s the elderly woman who lay sprawled on the floor beneath her walker, presumably after a bad fall.

She didn’t really fall. We know that thanks to a 1990 story by Phoenix New Times.

She just posed that way in tragic equipoise to recreate a spill she once took in real life.

She was there to........

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