Wednesday Big Blue Smurf Blogging

Today's honoree: Who else but the one, the only, Lower Manhattanite, who is the only person on earth (except maybe Driftglass) who can seamlessly tie together John McCain and Joe Besser as "Stinky" on the old Abbott and Costello show.

Money quote:

John McCain has gotten the eight fish stick dinner at Long John Silver's™ gratis for too many Goddamned years over his hyping his victimhood, and he's used the horrible spectre of his captivity as a shield and cudgel to silence anyone wno criticizes him, playing the “pity me” card as handily as if he had twenty of 'em up his sleeve on a spring loaded chute to his hand. It's been a veritable godsend for him whenever he's gotten hemmed up in his self-inflicted prisons of avarice and stupid.

But go read the whole thing. And yes, that's an order.