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Friday, January 22, 2010

Naked Scotty Brown Twofer

Many are enjoying the spectacle of stupidity Naked Scotty Brown is already making of himself, a sign of things to come in months to come. But it is worth noting that Brown not only exhibited his stupidity when he said "I'm a history buff," and then proposed "I love the Museum of Natural History" as evidence. We all await eagerly whether in answer to the question "What magazines do you read?" Naked Scotty Brown will reply: All of them.

But I do want to point out that this is actually a twofer:

Brown's answer represents one early brick in the wall he will continue to erect brick by brick between now and 2012 that render him too much an embarrassment to the reality-based citizens of Massachusetts to keep him in the Senate (unless Democrats manage a comparably idiotic campaign, which one must always concede is a too palpable possibility).

But his answer also manages in its affirmation of that Witch's Sabbath of Scientific Diabolism the Museum of Natural History to provide an early brick in the wall he will continue to erect brick by brick between now and 2012 that render him, in his effort to be a recognizable adult person and functional politician in actually-sane Massachusetts, too compromised to the militarist-christianist wingnuts of Massachusetts and elsewhere to keep him in the Senate either.

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