Charles Pierce KICKS ASS

Okay, here's a must read. Thanks to zoe kentucky at Demagogue for passing along this riotously funny piece on Oklahoma's distinguished champions in The Senate. Charles Pierce is now cordially invited to the First Annual Arvin Hill Fantasy Dinner (more on that later).


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In Praise of Oklahoma

Few states have the guts to elect
two wingnut senators at once.


As we all know, the corn is as high as an elephant's eye, and they're doing fine in Oklahoma. Oklahoma's OK, L-A,-H-O-M-A. Not only that, but right now the state is represented in the U.S. Senate by two of the most entertaining primates ever to sit in that august body. It is a remarkable achievement. Usually a state will elect one boring senator and one entertaining senator. Look at Pennsylvania: There's bland old Arlen Specter, trying to keep Ralph Reed from using him as a piñata, and there's Rick Santorum, who is the funniest thing about Christianity since the Singing Nun fell off the charts in 1965.

For that matter, look at my home state of Massachusetts. We have Teddy Kennedy and we have John Kerry. It's like being represented simultaneously by Falstaff and Ned Flanders. However, Oklahomans have been far more generous recently in sharing with the nation their state's more interesting political fauna. Take, for example, Senator James Inhofe, who chairs the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works. Just recently, Inhofe informed the nation that global warming was "the second-largest hoax ever played on the American people, after the separation of church and state."

If you don't finish the rest of this piece over at The American Prospect, I can only conclude you're swimming in a sea of deprivation and self-hatred. How Pierce was able to make such staggering ignorance so funny is truly something to behold. I bow - nay, drop to my hands and knees - before such awe-inspiring skill... and those who frequent this little black hellhole know I don't do much of that.