First they came for the donuts

Rand Paul today, speaking about the most important issue in America. He sure knows how to pick his battles (and hair-pieces).

"They're coming after your doughnuts!" the Kentucky Republican said, referring to the Food and Drug Administration decision to ban trans fats.

How can this guy exist? I don't get it. There's someone out there who likes this guy? Then again, "they're coming for your donuts" may be the most effective message to reach the current crop of Americans.

How did we fall this low? It's still amazing, even after more than a decade of nonsense. People used to make sense, you know. They were even logical, at times. If you're young, you probably aren't aware of this. And that may be the saddest fact of all.

Booman's story about Willard

If you didn't read this yesterday at Booman Tribune, I want to give you another chance. Trot on over and read his story about the Mittster. You'll be glad you did; it's funny. What an amazing creep Mitt is. There's never been anyone like him. And Americans are probably stupid enough to elect him. Amazing yet again!

Santorum for bathroom

In the brave spirit of Gore Vidal and Miss Myra Breckenridge, I suggest we start using the word "Santorum" for "bathroom". It sounds right, doesn't it? It's sort of sanitary-sounding and the Latin "orum" ending gives it the gravitas that a bathroom word needs. Admit it -- if you didn't know better, you might think lavatory and santorum were in the same class of words. I say we go for it.

As for the capitalization issue, I go both ways on this. I lean toward "santorum" because we don't capitalize bathroom or lavatory, but it might lose its connection to the fool from which it comes. What do you think? Will you switch to using this word in your own life? And chime in: lower case, right?

PS: For those who didn't read Vidal's book, he took the names of the Supreme Court justices who refused to protect the right to publish 'obscene' material, ruling that "community standards" should decide what was obscene -- and used those names for human body parts. Thus in "Myra Breckenridge" all men had a rhenquist between their legs and most hoped to pop it into an attractive woman's blackmun. It may sound silly but it worked -- it really, really worked. Gore won this battle big-time. Now, let's do it to Santorum!