The grinning Klingon Vice President-select Joe Biden, who oddly was sworn in to a seventh Senate term, his new job notwithstanding. He'll resign from the Senate before he's sworn into higher office with President-select Obamacon at the end of the month The well-statured Joe Biden not so warrior race has a genetic predisposition to hostility and a well-known streak of fatalism. Lieutenant Worf says that Klingons do not like to be "probed" by empathic Republican species. The culture's socialist utopian warrior ethic runs so deep that rivals in the civil war can meet and drink as equal fighters for periods of time before or after battles, thanks to the Capitol City's neutrality. During these get-togethers, a great deal of growling, wrestling, snarling and generally loud revelry takes place, Klingons seeming to derive tremendous satisfaction from drinking with their enemies on the night before a battle.