Just in time for me to hand forge a few personalized Christmas tree ornaments! To quote the late lamented Anna Nicole (as reimagined for protein wisdom), “Deck the halls, bitches!”

Which is fine, albeit startlingly surreal coming from a paper whose editorial page says we should all rally behind Mitt Romney, unrepentant architect of state-run health care and careful, proactive steward of a planet beset by noxious human exhalation. It is to laugh. All of it. This whole primary season. Here: let me just get this out of the way. Not a vote has yet been cast. So the race

Yeah, I know. The infantilization of a culture; the desire by the feminist movement to neuter masculinity in their continuing war on boys; the supremacy of political correctness in every institution we’ve allowed by taken over by the academic left; the intentional misuse of linguistic categories for the purposes of power; blah blah blah. You’ve heard it all before. — Only this time, there’s a happy ending: [Jerry] Bostic, until

A: Is that a rhetorical question? Which answer is itself a rhetorical question?

In communist afterlife Hell, Kim Jong-il is right now standing in a long line awaiting his turn at a filthy crapper hole he’ll being sharing for eternity with a bunch of pale, flaccid, dead bureaucrats. All of whom have ringworm. And one of whom will every day for the rest of ever share with him a story about how he once was caught in a storm and for survival, was

…despite widespread public support for the project, which would move the US toward North American energy independence while creating over 20,000 jobs (not including any as yet unimagined ancillary jobs that the free market is likely to “invent” around such a large-scale undertaking): Gene Sperling the National Economic Council Director told CNN on Sunday that experts at the State Department are warning that forcing an answer on the XL within